Living Earth Farm

We are excited about our 2008 season. This will be our eighth year in business. We provide a wide variety of produce and flowers to our local customers. We take pride in being a part of the growing interest of American communities desiring and taking steps to eat locally grown food using only safe sustainable methods. We have an open door policy at our market garden. If we grow for you we hope you will visit and get to know who is growing your produce.

We grow hundreds of varieties of over fifty different vegetables, fruits and herbs, including many heirlooms. Check out our seasonal harvest chart in Eat Seasonally Harvest Calendar. We also sell flower bouquets using a wide variety of prairie flowers along with old time garden favorites.

We use strict standards in our growing methods. We never use synthetic herbicides, pesticides or genetically modified seed. Our market gardens don’t look like our surrounding monoculture of crops in our neighborhood. We don’t want them to!

About Living Earth Farm

Living Earth Farm is located on fifteen acres in northeast Fulton County, Illinois. Owner, Anne Patterson, grew up on a farm in central Illinois. She is a registered dietitian and former food consultant. Her attitude about food and how it is grown began to change after she completed culinary studies in 1996 at The School of Natural Cookery in Boulder, Colorado. A few years later when she heard a speech by Patrick Holden, Director, Soil Association, United Kingdom, she knew she wanted to be a part of the renaissance of organic farming. Anne wanted high quality organic produce for her family and believed others in the community may also want locally grown produce, grown by sustainable methods. Please view our Pledge to our customers. Learn more about how you may join our increasing number of happy customers by going to HOW TO GET OUR PRODUCE and check out our unique Friends of Living Earth Farm E-Customer Program. NOTE: The E--Customer Program is now closed for the season. If you have not already signed up you will need to purchase Living Earth Farm products at the Farmers Market location starting in June.

Office: 309-245-7517 or annep@livingearthfarm.com

"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community, we may begin to use it with love and respect." - Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949






Pictures: Country Sprouts group helps plant a mid-season crop.