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21/08/2024

A delayed post from a truly magical evening at the farm! We hosted a tour and dinner highlighting ingredients from our farm. The event was a celebration of collaboration and community, and featured dishes by our culinary team as well as and .

The beautiful food was served on with drink pairings by and a welcome drink with ingredients from . We brought in produce from other local growers in the area like , , and .

Thank you to our incredible staff and all the loving guests who made this event such a hit. You all made this night so special. Stay tuned for a fall dinner announcement!

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20/06/2024

Borage flowers lookin' all dreamy like

18/06/2024

Aside from the biological benefits that our farm brings to this urban space (formerly a gravel lot), it's hard to measure the benefits of the beauty that this space provides.

Come experience it for yourself on Saturday, July 13th. We will be giving a tour of our indoor and outdoor farms before a five course meal highlighting ingredients from the farm in each course.

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15/06/2024

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**Early Bird Tickets Available Now Through June 21st - save $10 per ticket**

Kick the night off with a tour of Closed Loop Farms' indoor and outdoor farm, follow by dinner and drinks!

Dinner includes 5 courses brought to you by Palita Sriratana of Pink Salt, Shawn and Leanor of Heffer BBQ, as well as the CLF culinary team. All diners will receive a nonalcoholic cocktail at the beginning of the evening, as well as a CLF herbal tea with dessert.

The Drink Package includes 3 alcoholic drink pairings, specially crafted to compliment your meal.

An additional cash bar will be available for all attendees.

All dietary requirements welcome!

09/06/2024

It's officially edible flower season!

Beverage directors, hit us up if you're looking to elevate your cocktails this summer!

Photo courtesy of . Can't wait for this new restaurant with an incredible team to open!

30/05/2024

Beautiful day on the farm 🌞

29/05/2024

Save the date!

Join us for some local flavor this July 13th at our very first farm dinner of the season .

What can you expect:
5 courses with drink pairings
Open Bar
Guest Chef Palita Sriratana from Pink Salt
Dishes from CLF's Culinary Team

Tickets and more details soon!

13/05/2024

Pizza with a Lil' Closed Loop touch

06/05/2024

Little Gem lettuce is in! Available for home delivery through our website, and for wholesale delivery to chefs and grocers!

23/04/2024

Take your taco Tuesdays to the next level!

Step 1: Order tacos from your local taqueria (these are from Paco's Tacos inside of La Internacional Supermercado).

Step 2: Add CLF microgreens.

20/04/2024

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10/03/2024

Have you tried our SANDWICH CLUB yet? Our sandwich Club always includes fresh bread, artisanal cheese, a produce item; and a condiment, sauce, or pickle. The idea is for our home customers to have some no-brainer meals to put together with their freshly harvested microgreen delivery each week. We keep things fun and seasonal by rotating our selection of items each week. Subscribe to save as much as 10% off!

Last week's Sandwich club featured:
12oz. lion's mane from
4 Demi baguettes from
8oz.. Of aged parmigian from
A bottle of San Mariano tomato sauce from Forza in kenosha

To watch this sandwich be assembled, check out the video in our reels!

01/03/2024

Ready for a giveaway?

We’re celebrating our launch of a classic product, 🌱 The Big Green 🌱, by giving away two of them for free!

How to enter: Follow , and leave a comment tagging 3 or more friends in the comments that you’d invite over for a microgreen-packed meal!

What is The Big Green?
The Big Green is our largest box of microgreens available for home delivery. Each 14 oz. box contains Sunflower Shoots, Purple Radish, Pea Shoots, and two rotating premium varieties of microgreens in one box! OG home customers may remember this item, formerly known as the “Salad Club” box, and now it is back by popular demand.

Follow and leave a comment by March 14th to enter! We’ll reach out to the winner on Instagram on March 15th.

Prize recipient must have an address for delivery within our Chicago-area delivery zone, which spans most of the city; or must be able to pick up their gift from our farm at The Plant. Make sure you check in on the 15th to see who won!

02/02/2024

These are the (12 out of 15) people who make our farm run.

There is so much hard work that happens every day: Planting, watering, delivering, harvesting, cleaning, processing orders, communicating with customers, washing dishes, sending invoices, crop planning, packing, paying vendors, taking inventory, budgeting and financial forecasting, the list goes on and on. All of these jobs are pivotal to our operations which serviced 200 home subscribers, 175 restaurants, and a growing handful of grocery stores in 2023.

There are lots of exciting developments on the horizon this year, and our team is poised for the challenge!

15/01/2024

Cold days call for cozy breakfasts 🍳🌱

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11/01/2024

BIG NEWS!

You can now find Chicago- grown microgreens at !

grows microgreens, herbs, edible flowers and more, for over 100 of Chicago's top restaurants. Now you can pick up these chef's favorites at .

On shelves now!

21/12/2023

We're so happy to be partnering with chef Lauren to bring tasty straight to your doorstep. You can find Twidleybits products on both our Sandwich Club and Salad Club menus for next week.

Lauren makes deliciously plant-based small-batch cheeses, jams, fruit butters, and pickles - right here in Chicago. Whether you're a vegan, a foodie, or just looking for tasty accoutrements to eat with your microgreens, our curated club packagrs will have something for you!

Order by 11AM Sunday, 12/24
Delivered to your door on Thursday, 12/28
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Find next week's full club menu in our story!

03/06/2023

Sometimes crops don't turn out exactly how we hope they will. This was the case with one of our first beds of pak choi this Spring. We planted them tightly in hopes of a baby greens harvest, but they got very bitten up by bugs before we could apply row cover or spray Neem oil (our go to pest treatment). We then left them in the ground another couple of weeks past their optimal harvest date until they were cramped in the bed, becoming tall and leggy. This left us with a very unmarketable, yet perfectly tasty and nutritious crop. This is a situation that all farmers face at some point or another, and often the crop will just get tilled back into the soil, or pulled and composted.

Enter ! We have been working with Sebastian and Taylor for a couple of years now, offering their tasty ferments for our home Salad Club customers. So we were very excited at the prospect of working with them to turn a potential waste crop into a delicious, probiotic, and long lasting value-added product- kimchi! VBF turned our imperfect pak choi, beautiful French breakfast radishes, and green garlic, into a spicy, sour condiment that captures the essence of Spring in Chicago. We thought it was fitting to name it Spring-chi :).

This collaboration is a reminder that creating a truly sustainable, dynamic food system requires much more than just individual farmers working directly with customers. It requires community and partnership amongst folks in all aspects of (and beyond) the food industry!

This spring-chi was a limited release item and is available as a Salad Club add-on this week for all of our home subscribers!

25/05/2023

Outdoor farm photo dump!

We have put a tremendous amount of work into crop planning, prepping beds, protecting plants from frost, seeding, transplanting, irrigating, cultivating, trellising, hand weeding, and more this Spring.

It's a fantastic sight to see all of our care and effort start coming to fruition. The hoop house is looking beautiful and the edible flowers are beginning to take off. The violas and pansies have been going strong for a month, and now the nasturtiums, bachelor buttons, nigella, stock, borage, and cilantro are all starting to blossom. We transplanted Hoja Santa and begonia this week, and today we got our first harvests of tangerine Lace and anise hyssop for tomorrow's deliveries.

It's an exciting time to be on the farm. We have so many more crops on the way, so stay tuned!

21/04/2023

Microgreen mix

12/04/2023

Spring is officially here! While our outdoor spring crops are still little babies, this transitioning season always brings a surge in popularity for our pea tendrils. Our tendrils are bright, crisp, and have a beautiful sweet pea flavor. They are a bit heartier and more curvaceous than our standard pea shoots. We love the way that this dish by and at highlights the whimsical, curly-q form of the plant!

05/04/2023

Signs of Spring.

14/03/2023

Find our pea shoots on this festive St. Patty's day taco at !

16/02/2023

SOUP SQUAD!

Every Thursday, we enjoy the weekly Salad Club soup and bread for a staff meal. This week's soup was french onion, which we had with fresh baguette, gruyere cheese, and a big microgreen salad!

Thanks and for keeping us (and our Salad Club customers) well fed!

09/02/2023

We are excited to announce that we will be hosting a Winter Farm Dinner with Chef David deQuay in March!

has a wealth of experience cooking various global cuisines, with a particular breadth of knowledge in Dutch and Indonesian food. He has been a supporter of our farm for many years, and we are excited to be collaborating with him to bring you this very special event.

Expect an engaging tour of our farm, followed by an epic feast featuring about 20 varieties of our microgreens used in various ways! In addition to our micros, we will be sourcing from an array of local producers like , , , , , , ,

Check out our eventbrite page for more event details! Link in bio

13/01/2023

Our garlic chive microgreens perched atop some beautifully prepared ankimo (monkfish liver) at . We love seeing what the wildly talented chefs we work with create with our produce.

11/01/2023

From drab to fab. It's really that easy!

Did we mention that we deliver directly to your doorstep?

Signing up for Salad Club is as obvious as adding our microgreens to lentil soup.

17/12/2022

As farmers in a climate where nothing grows outside for nearly half of the year; it is of the utmost importance to be able to preserve and store the bounty of summer into the dark months of winter. One of the ways that we have achieved this is through our herbal tea program. This is our 3rd season drying herbs for tea, and we hope to continue to scale this part of our operation into the future!

This week, our outdoor farm crew blended all of the herbs we have been drying since the summer into a single blend.

The '22 vintage is an absolute beauty and an aromatic symphony. It consists of the following herbs:

Hoja santa
Goldenrod
Shiso
Tulsi
Hibiscus
Mixed flowers

Stay tuned for details about where to find our tea this winter.

09/11/2022

We would like to extend a big THANK YOU to everyone who came out to our farm tour this last Saturday. The weather was far from optimal, but you wouldn't know it from the smiles on everyones faces! It was a great experience for us to finally meet many of our long-time customers in person. We enjoyed hosting you, answering all of your questions, and showing you where the food we have been growing for you comes from.

If you missed us this time, not to fret! We will be anouncing another round of tours next Spring, so stay tuned!

27/10/2022

We hope to see you at our farm tour next Saturday, November 5th! Our founder, Adam, will be leading a tour of our 6,000 sq ft indoor microgreens farm, 1/4 acre outdoor farm, and hoop house. Herbal tea from our farm as well as local spiced apple cider will be provided. There will also be a small farmstand with greens, veggies, merch, and other local provisions. Tickets are free for Salad Club members and residents of 60609, and $10 for the general public. We will have plenty of time for q+a during the tour, and feel free to hang out and grab a brew at after!

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Welcome to the first video of the Closed Loop Farms Series, "Cook Like a Chef at Home"! This week's featured chef is Britni DeLeon of Food By Fare. Fare has been working in partnership with Closed Loop Farms since their opening in 2019. Find Closed Loop Farms' Microgreens at each of Fare's locations on their avocado toasts, and look out for edible flowers to make an appearance very soon! The Dish: Mushroom Toast The Microgreens: Big Leaf Mix