Pick-your-own farms

Date Modified: 08/13/2008 4:02 PM

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Several area farms invite visitors to pick their own produce and flowers.

Bonfield Gardens
4988 North 9000 West Rd.
Bonfield
(815) 932-0002

From the last weekend in June until the first weekend in August, Bonfield Gardens allows customer to pick their own flowers straight out of the ground.

Elde Ratite Family Ranch
2 Chatham Circle
Kankakee
(815) 426-2107
email: rderekhall@yahoo.com)

Since its founding in 1995, the Elde Ratite Family Ranch has raised ostriches and goats. In 1997, The Elde Ratite Family Ranch established its own company, Elde Meats, to produce and sell its own USDA-inspected vacuum-packed meat and produce. The birds raised on the Elde Ratite Family Ranch are feed only food from the farm, and are raised without medicines or growth hormones.

Harvest Time Farm Stand
2090 E. 4000 N. Rd.
Bourbonnais
(815) 955-3312
www.harvesttimefarmstand.com

Harvest Time Farm Stand allows customers to build their own bouquets of fresh-cut flowers.  Customers can make appointments for a tour, where they will be able to take a hayride around the farm, see many types of  farm animals, including goats and donkeys, and explore a maze of mini-straw bales.

JoAnn & Dennis Dickman
Herscher
(815) 426-2154
email: djdickman@netzero.net
Website: www.dickmans.net

Customers can sweet corn in the field, and make an appointment to tour the facility.  Visit their website for updates on special events on the farm.

Iyabo Farms
P.O. Box 582
Hopkins Park
(815) 944-5891
email: ifarms@direcway.com

Mary's Berries
Momence
(815) 472-6015

Customers can pick their own in-season strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and black raspberries.