Towanda, Illinois · A Family Farm
What started as a pandemic project — the kids, fifteen chickens, and a hand-built coop — has grown into a working family farm. Farm-fresh eggs and raw honey when available, from our own hens and hives, plus a kitchen that turns them into cookies, milk bread, and snack mixes. Two self-serve stands.
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From our hens, our hives, our kitchen.
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About the name
Three kids. One farm. Named for the ones who started it all.
In the strange spring of 2020, our kids needed a project. Together they researched chicken breeds, drew up plans, built a brooder box, and ordered fifteen chickens across eight breeds. They built the coop themselves — six egg boxes, a play yard, even a swing — and named every bird.
Six years later, those same kids are mostly off at college, but the farm they built is still here. It has grown alongside them: from one coop and a hand-painted Eggloo, to bees and honey, to trees we planted in 2025, to a kitchen that now bakes our own eggs and honey into cookies and milk bread every week.
Mom and Dad keep things running day-to-day now, but every jar, every dozen, and every cookie still traces back to a project the kids dreamed up at the kitchen table.
2020 · Year One
The kids researched breeds, wrote a budget, ordered chicks, and built everything from the brooder box to the coop. Eight different breeds, every bird with a name. The Eggloo went up on the roadside soon after — a little self-serve egg stand for neighbors.
2021 · Year Two
More chickens, a solar-operated coop door, a real business plan. The Eggloo became a fixture. Customers started leaving notes in the cash mailbox. The proceeds went right back into the farm, just like they do today.
2023 · Year Four
One of our kids took up beekeeping, and the hives turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to the garden. Pollination went wild; the wildflowers boomed. We started bottling raw honey by the jar.
2025 · Year Six
We planted our first trees in 2025. They're already growing alongside the hives, putting down roots while the bees keep them company. Later this year we'll be ready to share them, plus cut flowers and seasonal bouquets.
2026 · Year Seven
With the kids off at college, Mom and Dad fired up the oven. The kitchen is open now: small-batch cookies, milk bread, FireFish and snack mixes, and cinnamon rolls on Sunday pickup days. Our own eggs and honey go right into the dough.
Now
The farm runs on what those kids built and what we keep adding. Eggs and honey come and go with the season, the oven runs every week, and there are now two self-serve stands — one at the farm, one in the village at 102 N Quincy. Cut flowers and our first trees follow later this year. The stands are still honor-system. The chickens still have names. And the kids, even from their dorm rooms, still help call the shots.
Field Notes
Gathered from a flock of named hens, at the farm stand only. Laying ebbs and flows with the season, so the shelf isn't always full — pre-order for a guaranteed dozen.
Bottled from our own hives. Wildflower-forward, unfiltered, only what the bees made — which means we run out between harvests some years.
Thick, small-batch, and different every drop. Every cookie starts with our own eggs or honey — The Honeycomb, The Eggloo, Chunky Monkey, Doris, and a rotating cast besides.
Soft, pillowy, and enriched with our own eggs. Best the day you get it — if it lasts that long.
Brandt's creation — cheddar crackers tossed in his house BBQ rub and baked crisp. Habit-forming. Plus a rotating shelf of other snack mixes.
Trees planted in 2025 are growing alongside the hives. Pollinator-friendly cut flowers and seasonal bouquets, raised right here.
Order & Pick Up
Drops open Wednesday and close when they sell out. Cookies and milk bread go up for pre-order; cinnamon rolls come out of the oven Sunday morning and are walk-up only, while they last. Pick everything up Sunday at the farm.
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Take what you need, leave cash in the mailbox or send a Venmo. The honor system has worked beautifully for years. The farm stand is open every day; the village stand runs Thursday through Sunday.
Daily · 7:30a–7:30p
Our original hand-painted stand, a couple miles west of Normal Community High School. Honey and eggs when available — both ebb and flow with the season, and this is the only stand with eggs. Treats turn up too, usually Thursday through Sunday. Sunday drop pickups happen here.
18264 N 2150 East Rd
Thurs–Sun · 8a–7p
Right in town, Thursday through Sunday. Everything we make is here — honey when available, cookies, milk bread, FireFish and snack mixes. Everything except eggs, which stay at the farm.
102 N Quincy StLove and eggs are best when they are fresh.Russian proverb
Three ways. Walk up to either stand and take what's on the shelf. Pre-order cookies and milk bread for Sunday pickup at hotplate.com/abcfarmsco — drops open Wednesday. Or ship cookies and FireFish anywhere in Illinois through shop.abcfarms.co.
Two of them, both self-serve. The Eggloo is at the farm, 18264 N 2150 East Rd, open daily 7:30am–7:30pm with honey and eggs when available, plus treats most Thursdays through Sundays. The village stand is at 102 N Quincy in Towanda, open Thursday through Sunday, 8am–7pm. Eggs are at the farm stand only.
Wednesday the drop opens, Sunday is pickup day. Cookies and milk bread are pre-ordered through the drop; cinnamon rolls are made Sunday morning and sold walk-up, first come, until they're gone. Sign up for texts on Hotplate and we'll tell you when Wednesday's drop goes live.
Pre-orders are paid online at checkout. At either stand, there's a small mailbox for cash, or Venmo us at @ABC-Farms. The honor system has worked beautifully for years.
$5 per dozen at the farm stand, when available. Laying slows in the cold and the heat, so ordering ahead is the surest way to get your dozen.
We ship cookies and FireFish within Illinois through shop.abcfarms.co. As an Illinois cottage food operation, we can't send them out of state. Honey and eggs stay at the stands, and we don't deliver.
From November through April, the Eggloo moves up by the driveway to keep it safe from the plows. Eggs are available when the hens are laying — text us first to check and schedule a pickup.
Not yet. Our two stands and the Sunday drops are how to find us.