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Sunny Lane Farm/Teresa's Fruit & Herbs, 302 W Sunny Lane, Eureka, IL (2026)

Teresa's Fruit & Herbs is a very small, but very diverse farm located in the Mackinaw Valley in central Illinois. We grow about 25 kinds of fruit, 30 kinds of culinary and tea herbs, over 200 varieties of vegetable and herb starts, as well as some flowers. We specialize in aronia berries, a fruit native to North America, and that branch of our farm is called Sunny Lane Farm. We also sell products made from aronia berries, including fresh pressed aronia juice, frozen packaged berries, aronia tea, aronia jam and jelly, and hot pepper-aronia jam. Organic practices are used everywhere on our farm, but only Sunny Lane farm is certified organic by GOA. We sell our produce at the Evanston Farmers' Market and through a 60 member CSA with pick-ups in Bloomington, Peoria, Morton, and Eureka. We offer internships for hard-working people with a desire to learn how to farm organically.

09/03/2026

"In the dark of the moon, in flying snow, in the dead of winter, war spreading, families dying, the world in danger, I walk the rocky hillside, sowing clover." (Wendell Berry)

I count myself lucky that my job is somewhat of an antidote to the pain of living through this time of climate crises and genocide.

My heart gets broken daily but I have work to do that bandages it anew each day. My never-ending tasks of weeding, harvesting, pruning, and marketing are positive actions that are good for life on earth.

The tasks are interspersed with noticing. Today I saw the tiniest little jumping spider on a chive blossom, a hummingbird drinking from blossom after blossom in the raspberry row, and a turkey vulture flying low over us casting a shadow...which we noticed because it was so hot. Even the heat isn't all bad. It makes me feel so alive just as the biting cold air does in the winter.

Bringing my fruit and herbs and selling them at the market is also a balm for my heart. Coming across like-minded souls who care about people they've never met who are suffering and dieing, or who care about a forest or beach that they've never been to, makes me feel less alone.

Right now begins the time of year that I'll begin to cover bare ground with cover crop seeds to protect it over the winter and add nutrients to the soil.

I'll be "sowing clover" with Wendell.

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06/19/2026

I have noticed that my despair over the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine and Lebanon, as well as our domestic atrocities including ICE actions, can be lessened by small acts of creativity and community building. Last winter when I traveled to St Paul to visit my daughter, we participated in very small ways to help immigrants. One of the organizers that trained us said that the organized resistance was not centralized, but also not leaderless, but instead was "leader-full".

I think we can all act in small ways to speak out. It will draw people to you, inspire people to act, and make you feel better and actually will make a difference, at least to some few people.

If you've come to the market at the Riverfront this year, you might have noticed that my Palestine sign has not been displayed. Last season, after being told by the market manager that one board member objected to it, I was told to take it down.

I wrote a petition protesting the suppression of my free speech and got just under 200 signatures in less than one week. Despite sending the petition with the signatures to market management, I did not even get a direct response.

The response came indirectly this spring as a new rule that all market vendors must agree to in order to sell at the market. The new rule states that no signage is allowed that does not directly have to do with the products that we are selling.

Well, this week, I will be my own walking sign with this dress inspired by Liv Boycotts for Palestine.

Please come to the market this week and help Ele Elna Elak, a non profit in Gaza that helps get clean water to Gazans despite the horrific conditions that they are living (and dying) in during this ongoing genocide.

We are going to have a "Pay what you want" Fundraiser for Ele Elna Elak to get rid of all of the rest of our plants! We still have quite a few herbs (especially parsley) and some hot and sweet peppers and just a few eggplants.

Stand with Palestine
Stand with Humanity

FREE PALESTINE
Kira's Flowers
Liv Boycotts for Palestine
Soft Bodies™

05/04/2026

The need comes on me now
to speak across the years
to those who finally will live here
after the present ruin, in the absence
of most of my kind who by now
are dead, or have given their minds
to machines and become strange,
“over-qualified” for the hard
handwork that must be done
to remake, so far as humans
can remake, all that humans
have unmade. To you, whoever
you may be, I say: Come,
meaning to stay. Come,
willing to learn what this place,
like no other, will ask of you
and your children, if you mean
to stay. “This land responds
to good treatment,” I heard
my father say time and again
in his passion to renew, to make
whole, what ill use had broken.
And so to you, whose lives
taken from the life of this place
I cannot foretell, I say:
Come, and treat it well.

-Wendell Berry

04/18/2026

Gazans are still living in unbearable conditions. They are living in tents, in bombed-out buildings, and out in the open. Israel is barely allowing any aid in, so families have little food, almost no clean water, no cooking fuel and hospitals have almost no medicines or basic supplies. There are no sewage or garbage facilities. To top it off, Israel continues to kill Palestinians and occupy Gaza.

One of the Gazans that I follow on Instagram is the amazing journalist Bisan Owda (). She advocates for the aid organization called Ele Elna Elak, so this is the organization that I've chosen to raise money for in this fundraiser. I trust that the money will get where it is needed because I trust Bisan. Ele Elna Elak, has been providing essential aid to families across Gaza — including clean water, food, and basic hygiene supplies. Through volunteer coordination and local partnerships, they've reached thousands of people in critical need, supporting them with dignity and humanity.

Anyone who donates at least $25 (Please donate as much as you can!) to Ele Elna Elak at this link and sends me a screenshot of their donation will receive the following 5 Palestine region plants:

1. Za'atar (disclaimer...this the first time I've grown za'atar. The seed packet said Lebanese za-atar, but to me it looks and tastes like summer savory. If this isn't the za'atar that you are used to, feel free to choose another herb instead.)
2. Aleppo pepper-a famous Syrian hot pepper used throughout the Levant
3. Battiri eggplant-a delicious eggplant that we've grown for a few years now
4. Cilantro or basil, your choice
5. An heirloom tomato (I don't grow a Levantine variety so you can choose among my many types!).

This is a $30 value! You can see all of the plants I grow at www.teresasunnylanefarm.com

These plants will be delivered to Morton, Peoria or Bloomington or can be picked up at my farm in Eureka.

You can read about Ele Elna Elak here
Follow Bisan here.
Link to donate. https://eleelnaelak.com/

Thank you so much for caring! 💚💚💚 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Address

302 W Sunny Lane
Eureka, IL
61530

Opening Hours

Monday	5am - 5pm
Tuesday	5am - 5pm
Wednesday	5am - 5pm
Thursday	5am - 5pm
Friday	5am - 5pm
Saturday	5am - 5pm
Sunday	6am - 5pm

Telephone

+13092314484

Website

http://www.brockmanfamilyfarming.com/teresas-farm

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