East Grove Farms

06/17/2026

Just a reminder for this coming weekend June 20. Enjoy some great BBQ for purchase and music on the old farm starting early at 5:00pm. The w**ery is no more, so you need to bring your own beverage and lawn chair. M & J has some new material to introduce to us country folks. Rain or shine it will be fun. Free admission.

06/02/2026

Listen to some sample tracks of their latest EP with links where to download and listen to the full EP.

The Checks & Balances Band is from the heartland (Iowa) performing rock, folk rock, and a bit of punk and country influenced by some of the great folk and rock song writers. Whether you agree with our views or not, this EP is us exercising our 1st Amendment Rights as patriots of this great nation, t...

05/28/2026

Not an "East Grove Farms" event, just a fun laid-back evening on the farm to listen to some new material by Mercer & Johnson and Checks & Balances, eat some good BBQ by Cynful Smokers BBQ, and enjoy new and old friendships. Starts at 5pm.

08/19/2025

08/10/2025

Clearing out our inventory! $2 bottles of w**e, shirts half off at $10, hats $5.

08/10/2025

We are cancelling our outdoor music event this afternoon due to the unstable weather and chance of rain throughout the day and evening. We are open this afternoon and Monday for tasting and purchasing mead and w**e while supplies last.

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08/04/2025

This coming weekend is our last weekend of sales. This Saturday the 9th we will be at the Bloom and Bark farm on the J40 Farm Crawl and at the w**e barn at East Grove.

On Sunday August 10, our last day for tasting and purchasing, we will be open from 1-5 with homegrown music by Checks and Balances and Wh***ey Friends from 3-5pm. Purchase an unopened bottle of our products and wander over to the shade trees off-premises. Bring a lawn chair, cork screw, or favorite beverage and enjoy the country air.

We will be permanently closed on August 13, 2025.
The family is sponsoring an end of the road celebration on September 13.

07/02/2025

We will be closed down for maintenance from July 4 through the 6th. Have a happy 4th of July weekend celebrating our independence!

06/12/2025

We will be closed Saturday June 14 and will re-open Sunday the 15th at 2:00 pm. Sorry for the inconvenience!

02/08/2025

Part 4 - East Grove Farms Story --Following our trip back from Hartsburg we tended to our patch of elderberries suffering from drought and weeds through the rest of the summer of 2011. We picked wild elderberries for experimentation of different recipes, settling on mead if we were going after a w**e license. In the fall we officially incorporated as East Grove Farms LLC and began the process of obtaining a federal and state license for making alcohol.

In 2012, inspired by the success of the Missouri growers we developed unused areas of the farm to plant more elderberries. We purchased more cuttings from River Hills Harvest and propagated some of our indigenous wild elderberries in our recently purchased greehhouse. Planting and mulching by hand is hard work if you are doing multiple acres so we purchased a mulch layer and waterwheel planter do plant our next 12 acres.

In June of 2012 we were back down to Hartsburg for the elderberry workshop and 3rd annual Elderberry Music Festival to further our elderberry education and have a bit of fun listening and playing music. We set up "Owl Camp" in the same place and this time we had a keg of our new experimental mead called Bumbleberry. It was a big hit and didn't last long. The music was as great as it was the year before and many of the bands were back again. Again we played the tweener stage for T-shirts and I got to jam on the main stage with Dave Dearnley, Dyno Don Perry, Heather Wilson and the Roadkill Orchestra.

Back on the farm for the remainder of the summer and fall of 2012, we got hit with another year of drought so we did a lot of watering to keep the plants alive. Marlene worked on our logo and bottle label designs. We began working on the old Garretson house as a possible headquarters for our operation then planning for the next year ahead.