Meet Our Producers
Region Roots' mission is to develop opportunities for farmers and producers with distribution and value-chain support in order to cultivate a just, thriving and regenerative local food system for all in NW Indiana. Read more about our producers below. Want to join Region Roots as a producer? Apply now.
Sunrise Harvest Blueberries
San Pierre, Indiana
One of life's guarantees is that the sun always rises. Each dawn provides another day. As a producer of food, it is Sunrise Harvest Blueberries’ aim that your produce can taste as fresh as possible just like the freshness of a beautiful sunrise.
Sunrise Harvest Farm is family owned and operated.
Grounded Earth Farm
Crown Point, Indiana
Grounded Earth Farm’s first-generation farmers grow organic vegetables, nuts, and fruit. Their mission is to nourish the community with sustainably-grown food, to be a model of farm viability and to improve the health of families and the earth.
Grounded Earth Farm is completely committed to continuous self-education and anti-racism work; to actively building collective power in the food system through partnerships that honor both farm viability and urgent, pressing need for affordable, fresh food.
Janie’s Mill
Ashkum, Illinois
Janie’s Mill is an organic family farm and organic mill committed to supplying you with the most delicious, wholesome, and best-performing flours and grains. In fact, they grow most of their grains on Janie’s Farm, just down the road from Janie’s Mill!
The Wilken Family are 5th-generation farmers using certified organic and regenerative practices on their Illinois farm, where they grow many different crops in a biodiverse rotation. They then transform those crops into dozens of delicious and nutrient-dense products that are good for you, and good for the planet.
Perkins Good Earth Farm
DeMotte, Indiana
Perkins Good Earth Farm invests in their soil and post-harvest handling. This means you receive organic, nutritious, safe, super-long-lasting veggies that taste amazing AND make you feel great!
Dan Perkins, the guy who does the growing at Perkins’ Good Earth Farm, is a Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) and has 19+ years of organic growing experience. In short, Dan dreams about soil and veggies and cares deeply about soil health and growing the best veggies possible. Julie facilitates the farm’s CSA community. Before having children, she taught high school English. Now she raises vegetables and four kiddos, cooks recipes new and old with farm-fresh produce, and teaches CSA success skills.
Pioneering Pig Homestead
North Judson, Indiana
Pioneering Pig Homestead is a direct-to-consumer family-ran diverse farm. Their focus is growing pasture-raised, healthy, humanely-treated meat and eggs along with nutrient dense fruits, vegetables, herbs, honey and raw goat milk using sustainable methods. Pioneering Pig Homestead raises Dexter Cattle, Katahdin Sheep, Alpine Goats, Berkshire/Landrace Cross Hogs, Saxony Ducks, and a variety of chickens for meat and eggs. The goal is to return to their roots by growing most of their own food, sharing knowledge and providing local food products to those interested in making healthy choices.
Rainfield Farm
New Carlisle, Indiana
Born in 2012, Rainfield Farm practices small scale farming on thirteen acres of land, one of which is used for growing produce. The fields are strategically placed to minimally impact the natural landscape of pines and rolling hills.
They practice natural growing methods which prevents the use of pesticides and synthetic chemicals. Rainfield Farm relies heavily on composting and soil conditioning through cover crops, green manure and crop rotations.
Alson Farms
Rensselaer, Indiana
Alson Farms specializes in providing locally-produced, high-quality apples to Rensselaer and surrounding communities. We are located just north of Rensselaer, Indiana.
Five Hands Farm
Lowell, Indiana
We are market gardeners and 4th generation farmers, growing quality organic produce, on our family farm.
We desire to provide our community with locally grown fruits and vegetables. Grown organically by conviction (avoiding chemical fertilizers, and pesticides), with all consideration towards sustainable practices, and of course, quality!
Everything is grown right here on our Indiana farm, and hand picked at the height of freshness.
Shannon Farm & Homestead
Gary, Indiana
Shannon farm and homestead, LLC., a Gary, Indiana urban farm, provides sustainability in creating a food system for socially and economically disadvantaged communities to combat food apartheid.
We appreciate all of our customers from wholesale to retail. YOU help us fight food apartheid with each purchase.
As we grow our business YOU help us expand our business. YOU are a business partner in that growth. TOGETHER with one urban farmer at a time we can build and sustain our food system. Each One Reach One - Sankofa!
Culp Farms
Rensselaer, Indiana
We are a 5th generation farm. Currently we farm with three generations- our son and my husband's father. We love raising quality beef and pork. We take pride in knowing where our animals come from and what they are fed.
We meat your needs!
Artesian Farm
New Buffalo, Michigan
We are a hydroponic vertical farm in New Buffalo, MI (Formerly Green Spirit Farms). We grow fresh vegetables year round, indoors using renewable energy selling fresh produce to customers throughout the Midwest
We are a sustainable VERTICAL farm in New Buffalo, Michigan providing fresh greens to the local community and beyond! In 2011, we reclaimed a formerly abandoned building on the outside of town and became the first vertical farm in Michigan and one of the first in the country. A vertical farm grows UP which means we use space very efficiently, using 96% less space than conventional farms. We also use far less water – up to 98% less water. We are living our dream to create green jobs in our community which ensures conservation of natural resources and viability of vibrant lives into the future!
Eden Valley Farms
Francisville, Indiana
Eden Valley's mission as a family farm is to deliver fresh, locally grown produce to our customers and communities through a vibrant culture of integrity, stewardship, sustainability, and innovation. Eden Valley is owned and operated by 4th generation farmers, who have a passion for locally grown produce and for creating "green" jobs with a living wage in our community.
Eden Valley Farms is committed to strengthening our rural communities by producing lettuce and herbs of the highest quality. Our hydroponic greenhouse facility allows for year-round production for retailers in the Midwest.
Kankakee Valley Homestead
Walkerton, Indiana
We started Kankakee Valley in 2017 back when Tom was teaching 4th graders math and saw the impacts of hunger first hand. He became Farmer Tom, moving back to Indiana to transition the family farm to vegetable production.
We believe strongly in two tenants of food justice: transparency and access...
We believe it’s hard to be transparent about things you didn't grow. We grow the entirety of what we sell on Region Roots from sprout to harvest, and specialize in many varieties of potatoes. We can tell you exactly which chemicals were applied (none! Not even organic ones) and we also love farm inspections and think they don’t happen often enough: if you come out to the farm in Walkerton we’ve got plenty to look at and even more work to volunteer for!
Sunset Prairie Farm
Valparaiso, Indiana
Sunset Prairie Farm is a small family farm near Valparaiso, Indiana. Located on rolling hills, we specialize in nutritious, cage-free eggs, delicious sweet corn and beautiful and tasty heirloom pumpkin and squash varieties. All are grown and tended at our location.
Fischer Farms
Celestine, Indiana
We are a sixth-generation family beef farm in St. Anthony, Indiana. We stand by our values of: Premium, Natural, Local, Fresh, Sustainable.
Top quality meat that you can be confident serving in your restaurants and offering in your retail case. Naturally raised and processed without growth hormones, routine antibiotics, fillers, MSG, nitrates, phosphates, solutions, etc. that has unfortunately become the standard in conventional meat production.
All of our meat is cut fresh to order each week and our beef is dry-aged for 14+ days.
We also practice regenerative agriculture on our farm and are passionate about encouraging other farms to join us in the effort to REVERSE climate change through responsible agriculture.
The pork is raised naturally on our neighbor's farm (they're the pork experts) in alignment with our values.
We pride ourselves in being a consistent, top quality local product that helps set our customers apart.
Great American Cheese Collection
Chicago, IL
Located in Chicago and a tenant of The Plant, The Great American Cheese Collection represents more than 45 family and co-op producers, and is the single largest source for America’s artisan cheeses.
It’s our mission to bring together excellent quality, delicious tasting, small production cheeses from around the USA. Through this single source, our aim is to make these products more available to chefs in restaurants, food service, wineries, breweries and to the public via small retail stores (e.g. wine shops, butcher shops, provision shops).
Edaphon Farm
Crown Point, IN
We are a farm and homestead focused on cultivating life: soil life, animal life, plant life, fungal life, and human life. Our offerings are focused on unique and particularly healthful produce including gourmet mushrooms, heirloom and rare fruits and vegetables, and specialty garlic. Our farm is a pursuit in health, flavor, and curiosity of everything life and nature have to offer.
Kajers Greens
North Judson, IN
Here at Kajers Greens we are a small organic family owned farm. We established our business in 2017 growing just microgreens. We have since expanded into a market garden farming on just 1/2 an acre. We pride ourselves not only on family, but also on growing honest greens which to us means being able to give our customers the freshest, most nutritional dense produce possible. Our farm is located in North Judson, Indiana just south of the Kankakee River.
Garwood Orchards
LaPorte, IN
The Garwood family has been farming the same land for over 180 years. For 6 generations, we've maintained a focus on farming, family, and community. When it comes to what we grow or what we buy, quality is number one! We always offer the best quality produce that you can get whether it be in our market, as a wholesale customer or at our u-pick farm.
Mick Klug
St. Joseph, MI
Mick Klüg Farm grows many varieties of fruits and vegetables, employing approximately 25 employees seasonally. Our families are committed to sustainable agriculture and promoting locally grown produce, and Mick Klug Farm is MAEAP Environmentally verified for our cropping and farmstead systems. We have provided fresh produce to the Green City Market for over 15 years and to City of Chicago Farmers Markets for over 30 years.
PopsGreens
DeMotte, IN
Organic, Locally Grown Microgreens! We grow the highest quality microgreens, providing fresh, nutritious greens from a local source. Microgreens are some of the most potent greens that you can eat. We grow different local varieties that are healthy, look beautiful, and taste delicious. We are a family owned business based local out of DeMotte, Indiana, we grow our microgreens fresh, with love and quality, straight from the farm to your table.
Roots and Revelry
Valparaiso, IN
Smalltown Coffee
Crown Point, IN
Smalltown offers fresh, quality coffee beans while valuing the people connected to us. We focus on small batch coffee roasting and champion a commitment to small town makers and doers. We invest in communities of craftsmen, growers, farmers, and artisans.
Yaggy Road Roasting
Valparaiso, IN
Yaggy Road Roasting Co was born in a dorm room in 2016. In the beginning, they never made a plan or intended to create a business, it was just three guys in a dorm room who loved sharing a cup of coffee with whoever was around. We like to say that Yaggy Road was built by the community that was around us. They were surrounded by great people who loved great coffee and the more interest we received, the more they got into roasting coffee. As they began to learn more and more about coffee, they became aware of some of the serious problems it causes for the communities that grow it—both humanitarian and environmental. They love coffee, but hate the ways that it has been destructive to many of the coffee growing regions of the world. Through this frustration with coffee’s harmful impacts, the Yaggy Mission was born.
Yeastie Boy Company
Valparaiso, IN
Our products are made with few high quality ingredients. Our breads are all hand-crafted for the old world feel and baked fresh for every order.
Check back regularly, our producer list is regularly growing!
