A Not-For-Profit

Membership Cooperative

in Elgin, Illinois

Contact UsFor more information, please

visit our website atwww.mcqueenstationfarm.com.

Email address:mail@mcqueenstationfarm.com.

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Our CommunityOne of the goals of starting this cooperative farm was developing a good sense of community. No one of us has the resources and time to run a farm, but together we do. Through this process, we’ve gotten to know some pretty great people.

Our sense of community naturally led us to the concept of teamwork. We split up the daily and weekly routine work among our livestock, garden, maintenance and business teams. This allows everyone to contribute in a capacity that works best for them individually and for the Farm as a whole.

The full benefit of a larger community really shows at our Farm Work Days, where the teams come together to tackle big projects for the farm. We often end these days with a potluck for our members.

Our Mission

Our FarmMcQueen Station Farm Cooperative is a values-driven community working to produce locally grown, healthy food in a sustainable manner for the primary purpose of distribution to members.

Our broader mission is to learn, grow, and share with ourselves and others, working to encourage the growth of our local economy, helping to create and sustain vibrant, livable communities.

In 2012, McQueen Station Farm was proud to extend our reach to our neighbors by donating excess produce to Food for Greater Elgin, a local food pantry. We continually look for ways to engage with our larger community.

Homemade goats milk cheese. Safe eggs. Warm ripe tomatoes fresh off the vine. These were some of the things that motivated us to pool our talents, resources, time, energy and love into this project.

In our inaugural year, we planted 14 different kinds of vegetables, and harvested nearly 600lbs of produce throughout the growing season. Currently, we are up to 20 different veggies, including various greens, squash, beans, hot & sweet peppers, heirloom tomatoes, onion & garlic.

Our egg-laying flock consists of over a half dozen breeds, including Barred Rock, Americanas, and Black Stars. We harvest more than a dozen colorful eggs a day!

What began as one milking doe has grown into a small herd

of nubian and alpine adult goats and a couple of their kids. Our goats enjoy sunny pastures, ample hay-munching time, and cozy shelter in our 150+ year old barn. Each goat has a personality all their own and contributes to the character of our Farm. And of course, we get to enjoy all that creamy milk, especially when made into chévre and feta!

Our newest project is raising meat chickens. Our future plans include aquaponics and vermacompost.