AVAILABLE NOW

aS OF 6/12/2025

CHICKS COMING SOON! These will be from our own eggs and a mix of Blue Orpington, Ameracauna, Black Australorp, White Leghorn, and Rhode Island Red. Their parents and grandparents survived the bitter cold and stifling heat of our local climate. $1.50 each straight out of the incubator on June 16, $2.50 June 17-21, $3.50 June 23-28, $4.50 after June 30 if any are left.

FRESH NATURAL UNPROCESSED (RAW) GOAT MILK, $11 per quart with quart Mason canning jar exchange, $14.50 per quart with no jar exchange. Call for availability. Be sure to bring cooler and ICE to keep under 41F.

FRESH EGGS FROM TRULY FREE-RANGING HENS, $8.50 per dozen. They could also be incubated for chicks if the eggs are never refrigereated. Call ahead for availability.

GARDEN PRODUCE collards, kale, rhubarb, lettuce, small amounts of spinach and chard. Generally U-pick. We also have lots of wild or feral plants for foraging—henbit, dandelion, wormwood, white vervain, motherwort, lambsquarter, purple dead nettle, broad leaf plaintain, red clover, chicory, burdock, pigweed (amaranth)—these are some that I can identify but there are more. Leafy stuff—$3 per gallon bag.

RABBITS, 1 black and 1 red baby bunnies, can leave their mama on June 30, $20 each.

AFRICAN GEESE, 3 goslings, very personable, just starting to grow their feathers out, $25 each.

AMERICAN GUINEA HOGS, 4 gilts (young females) born June or July of 2024, $225 each. Registration if desired, add $25. Breeding stock going out of state, add $35 for health certificate for first animal, $10 each additional.

2 young barrows, $3 per pound sold live at the farm. Sorry, no boars available at this time

SMALL SCALE HAYING EQUIPMENT, sold “as is, where is”

BCS Professional 850 walk-behind tractor with 14 HP V-twin Briggs and Stratton Vanguard Engine;

Caeb baler Mountainpress 550 made in 2003 with 2 brand new rolls of bale wrap always kept in house,

26” rototiller,

BCS 54” BF80/175 made in 2004, # 0128759 sickle bar mower.

All well used and in need of fixing or tweaking, not a beginner’s project. Make offer. We are upgrading to a small 4-wheel tractor, drum mower, and Ibex baler. We do not have a rake/tedder for sale.

MANURE for making compost, $2 per feed sack full. You dig it, choice of chicken, goat, sheep, pig. Where we have used plenty of this in our garden, the soil texture is fine and spongy and plants grow like crazy!

Please email (info@joyofillinois.com) or text (872-205-0801) ahead to make sure these are still available. Thanks!

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