By Dan Popek, Asst. Farm Manager   To quote our farm manager, Jason, “there are two things we can get better at: planning and execution.”

By Kelsey Nasset, Farmer From the beginning, this humble vegetable was worshiped and revered by the Incan empire. Archaeologists have found it buried in ancient

I speak for the entire farm crew when I say that I’m good and tired.   After a half year working together, our muscles and

by Dan Popek, Assistant Farm Manager “The farmer lives and works in the meeting place of nature and the human economy. Farmers either fit their

by Dan Popek & the TCF Staff   We seem to be in a strange position we may have never experienced; it is like we

      By Jason Halm, Farm Manager        Garlic, Allium sativum, the stinking rose: is it a vegetable, a spice, or a

Even on a 20 degree day in February here in Naperville, I can feel myself transported out to the tropics within seconds, where it is

We’re a Working Farm! You may have passed McDonald Farm for years without knowing what exactly goes on up that long driveway. You may be

  By Jason Halm, Farm Manager   Farming, in the spring, to me, is a constant tension between patience and push. There is a patience