Garden Memberships
With Garden memberships, our highest-level membership, your support of The Talking Farm includes receiving a weekly bag of Skokie-grown vegetables along with a host of other benefits. Bags are picked up weekly at one of our pickup sites during our designated pick-up days and times.
2023 Membership Sessions
There are 2 separate sessions:
Garden 1 – mid-June to mid-August (10 weeks)
- includes early-season greens, salad mixes, spinach, carrots, and turnips, then transitioning to early-summer vegetables such as summer squash, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, and bush beans.
Garden 2 – mid-August to mid-October (10 weeks)
- includes the bounty of late summer and early fall, starting with cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, round, heirloom tomatoes, and melons, then transitioning to fall greens, salad mixes, winter squash, french pumpkins, and root vegetables.
Pickup Sites/Days/Hours
Howard Street Farm (3669 Howard St., Skokie)
- Wednesdays 5-7p
- Thursdays 8:30a – 1 pm
Andersonville Farmers Market (Catalpa Ave. between Clark St. & Ashland Ave., Chicago)
- Wednesdays 3-7p (at TTF’s market stand)
Three Tarts Bakery & Cafe (301 N Happ Rd, Northfield, IL – off the I94 Willow Rd exit)
- Wednesdays 10a-6p
Additional pickup sites may be announced as the season progresses.
Vacation holds
Every Garden Member will now be able to claim up to 2 vacation holds by extending their shares up to 2 weeks. We will accommodate up to 2 weeks of vacation holds per each 10-week Garden 1 or Garden 2 session.
Share Sizes (new!) & Pricing
Full share – $350/10 weeks
- Weekly box /pickup
- Feeds 3-4 people weekly with supplemental items; Feeds 2 vegetarians/vegans weekly
- $175 is tax-deductible
Half Share – $175/10 weeks
- Weekly box/pickup
- Feeds 1-2 people weekly with supplemental items; Feeds 1 vegetarian/vegan weekly
- $87.50 is tax-deductible
Additional Membership Benefits
All Garden memberships provide the following benefits:
- Free Talking Farm branded market tote for your produce
- 20% discount at our farmers’ market stands
- 20% discount on seedlings during our annual Spring seedling sales
- 20% discount on event tickets
Egg Shares
We are partnering with Finn’s Ranch to offer weekly shares of farm-fresh, free-range eggs. Each egg share gives you a dozen eggs per week for 10 weeks and runs concurrently with our Garden shares.
If you haven’t already met them at one of the local farmers’ markets, Finn’s Ranch is a family farm based in Buchanan, a small town in southwestern Michigan. Finn’s Ranch’s “Happy Chicken Eggs” are from free-range, pasture-raised chickens that feed on grubs they get from outside as well as non-GMO feed, providing tasty, sustainably-raised eggs.
Pick-up is at the same locations and times as our Garden memberships (we’ll contact you after signing up to set your pick-up location). Egg 1 runs concurrently with Garden 1, and Egg 2 runs concurrently with Garden 2.