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9/1 Farm Box

Red Radish from Dagele Brothers Produce, NY Green Kale from Landisville, NJ Red Bell Pepper from Sunny Harvest, PA Candy Onion from Eagle Road ...

Reflections on a Year of Illuminate

One year into building this business, and every day I am learning something new. What started as a crazy idea at the beginning of a pandemic mig...

Illuminate's Mission Statement

My Mission I very much enjoy delivering top quality local produce and seeing the joy it brings people. But my goal is not to solely build a farm bo...

A Brief and Oversimplified History of How Our Food System Came to Be.

Today’s food system in the United States is built on having cheap fuel. Following World War II, transporting food became cheap enough that we were ...

Farm Stories: From New Jersey to California

Polyface Farm – Swoope, VA Polyface Farms, featured in Michael Pollan’s book Omnivore’s Dilemma, is among the best known alternative farms in the ...

What is Regenerative Agriculture? And Why This Fourth Generation Farm Girl Loves It.

Today I listened in on a Zoom 'Happy Hour' with a bunch of farmers talking regenerative agriculture. If you ever want to have a bit of a giggle, w...