
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.
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Alson Farms
Rensselaer, Indiana
Alson Farms specializes in providing locally-produced, high-quality apples to Rensselaer and surrounding communities.
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Ancilla Beef and Grain Farm
Plymouth, Indiana
Our mission is to cultivate grain and raise exceptional quality beef in harmony with the environment, honoring our rich traditions and guided by the core values of the Poor Haidmaids of Jesus Christ.
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Aqua Blanca
Indianapolis, Indiana
Our perservative-free shrimp offers a pure, natural flavor that enhances any dish. Harvested and delivered within hours, our shrimp is the freshest you can get. Our shrimp is free from antibiotics, preservatives, and additives, offering pure, natural flavor.
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Artesian Farms
New Buffalo, Michigan
We are a sustainable VERTICAL farm in New Buffalo, Michigan providing fresh greens to the local community and beyond!
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Baby Greens Family Farm
Merrillville, Indiana
We’re a family that has made it our business to do what we love and that is growing food. We hope you enjoy our nutrient rich, yummy microgreens.
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Blomstergard Farm & Flower
LaPorte, Indiana
Small scale Flower Farm located in NWI. We use organic growing and no till farming methods.
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Coburg Flower Depot
Westville, Indiana
Flower Farm 10 minutes from Valparaiso boasting over 500 varieties of daylilies and Upick Flowers.
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E&N Farm
Hebron, Indiana
We strive to raise chickens, ducks, and goats as naturally as possible and share our bounty and knowledge with our community.
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Edaphon Farm
Crown Point, Indiana
We are a farm and homestead focused on cultivating life: soil life, animal life, plant life, fungal life, and human life. With patience and creativity we can learn from and enhance natural systems to create diversity and abundance.
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Eden Eggs
Crown Point, Indiana
Raising chickens lovingly in Crown Point, Indiana.
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Fischers Farm
Celestine, Indiana
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.
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Five Hands Farm
Lowell, Indiana
We are market gardeners and 4th generation farmers, growing quality organic produce, on our family farm.
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Earth First Farms
Berrian Center, Michigan
Tom and Denise started out by transitioning a conventional orchard to organic, and we have been certified organic since 2006. Our home farm is 49 acres of organic apples, strawberries, peaches, pears and lots of other fruits and vegetables. We have expanded over the years farm and we now farm 50 acres of apples, 10 acres of blueberries and 25 acres of everything else, all organic in SW Michigan.
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Garwood Orchards
LaPorte, Indiana
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.
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The Great American Cheese Company
Chicago, Illinois
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.
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Green Bee Grow Mushroom Company
Rensselaer, Indiana
We are a small family farm located in Indiana, growing our mushrooms right here on our farm. We grow our mushrooms indoors in a clean and temperature and humidity controlled grow environment.
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Green Bridge Growers
Mishiwaka, Indiana
Green Bridge Growers uses innovative methods to grow sustainable, fresh produce for your table year-round. Our venture is also grounded in a strong social mission - to create jobs that harness the amazing skills of young adults with autism. We grow local, organic vegetables for our community, and those who buy from us help to create jobs and change lives.
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Green Trail Farms
LaPorte, Indiana
Family run organic farm based in La Porte Indiana growing specialty cut flowers, high quality produce, and you-pick flowers.
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Grounded Earth Farm
Crown Point, Indiana
Grounded Earth Farm’s first-generation farmers grow organic vegetables, nuts, and fruit.
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Hickory Hills Flower Farm
Valparaiso, Indiana
Sustainability-focused, local, family cut flower farm in Valparaiso, IN.
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Howe Farms
Crown Point, Indiana
Family owned & operated farm specializing in pasture raised Pork & Beef. ANTIBIOTIC FREE & SOY FREE
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Hulitt Homestead
Portage, Indiana
We pride ourselves in being able to provide our community with fresh produce and herbs that are locally sewn and locally grown!
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Ixxa Coffee
Whiting, Indiana
From farm to cup, our coffee is always freshly brewed here at IXXA.
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Jake’s Country Meats
Cassopolis, Michigan
Jake's Country Meats is a 7th generation family farm in southwest Michigan that specializes in raising heritage breeds outside on pasture and in woodlands.
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Janie’s Mill
Ashkum, Illinois
Stone-ground Flours for Professional and Home Bakers. Locally-Grown & Certified Organic Grains.
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Kankakee Valley Homestead
Walkerton, Indiana
A Naturally Grown producer-only market garden and homestead from Walkerton serving Chicagoland, Michiana, and Indianapolis.
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Lane’s End Farm
Lowell, Indiana
Lane's End Farm is a family-owned organic farm located in Lowell, IN.
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Line in the Sand Farm
Hanna, Indiana
We are a small farm in Hanna, IN providing cut flowers, handmade soaps & herbal salves. goes here
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Mick Klug Farm
St. Joseph, Michigan
Mick Klüg Farms focuses on providing sustainably farmed, hand-harvested, quality fresh fruit and vegetables to local and Chicago-based farmers markets, restaurants, breweries and fresh produce retailers.
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My Guilty Pleasure
Lowell, Indiana
My Guilty Pleasure strives to serve customers the highest quality gourmet vegan desserts. We strive to provide fresh baked goods made with fresh ingredients, giving quality over quantity.
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Native Roots Farm
Wanatah, Indiana
Native roots farm has provided our nw indiana community with the most nutrient dense, nourishing, fresh, local food imaginable SINCE 2013.
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Perkins Good Earth Farm
Demotte, Indiana
Meet Dan Perkins, the guy who does the growing at Perkins’ Good Earth Farm. Dan, commonly known as the “Cover Crop Guy”, is a Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) and has 22+ 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 for YOU!
Julie facilitates the fabulous community of our CSA and manages our farm store and farm kitchen! 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.
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Pops Greens LLC
PopsGreens grows the most fresh, highest quality microgreens for your home and restaurant.
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Publican Quality Bread
Chicago, Illinois
Our bread is a little rough around the edges and a little louder than is polite.
That's mainly because when your ingredients go well beyond straitlaced white wheat, your bakes go to a much more unruly and interesting place. Our recipes are time-tested applications of while-grains in all of their whole form, locally grown, hearth-baked glory.
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Rainfield Farm
New Carlisle, Indiana
We're a certified naturally grown farm which prevents the use of pesticides and synthetic chemicals. We rely heavily on composting and soil conditioning through cover crops, green manure and crop rotations. Our farm is a USDA conservation partner (EQIP) specifically our pollinator fields and we're a partner of the Indiana Grown initiative.
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Root and Revelry Craft Soda
Valparaiso, Indiana
Root & Revelry Craft Soda is small-batch brewed soda, carefully crafted with all real ingredients. This labor-of-love found its start years ago, when we noticed a real gap in the high-quality craft soda market.
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Shannon Farm and Homestead
Gary, Indiana
Our mission is fighting food apartheid, breaking down barriers and teaching food sustainability
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Smalltown Coffee Co.
Crown Point, Indiana
Roasting the highest quality coffee for coffee geeks, restaurants, cafes, breweries, cities, and businesses in Crown Point, IN.
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Sunchoke Farm
South Bend, Indiana
All the salad greens I grow here at Sunchoke Farms are grown with the highest quality standards.
Attention to detail, quality assurance and cleanliness are hallmarks of my farm.
I take pride in the food I grow and serve to my family and friends.
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Sunrise Harvest Farm
San Pierre, Indiana
Sunrise Harvest Farm is family owned and operated.
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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.
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Tanglewood Acres
Mill Creek, Indiana
Currently, Tori is working full time on the family farm and Tia is a school social worker. In between dropping the kids off to practices, they ensure Tanglewood is taken care of. They specialize in pork raised on pasture, supplemented with Non GMO feed as well as organically fed chicken eggs.
They are passionate about maintaining the land that has been in their family for generations and, in turn, getting some really great food out of it!
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Tuholski Farm
LaPorte, Indiana
Tuholski Produce was established in 2018 by Becca and Mike Tuholski. The two shared a vision of a small, sustainable, diversified produce farm that was both family- and community-focused and gave back to the land. The two farm together on just under an acre in their hometown of LaPorte, Indiana.
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Twine Flower Farm
Chesterton, Indiana
Twine Flower Farm is a culmination of the last 20+ years in the making. Small gardens became larger gardens… we would share half of what we had with each other, so our gardens would double, and the rest is “Flower Math”. Thousands of plants and flowers speckled all throughout our yards… filled with color, texture, and wonder.
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Vintage Baked Modern
Valporaiso, Indiana
I founded Harvest Circle Workshop in 2012 developing all-natural innovative snacks like Harvest Superfood Balls and Harvest Superfood Granola sold in Whole Foods Market, Fresh Thyme Market, and Beatrix micro-markets.
In 2019, I re-branded to Vintage Baked Modern, an all-natural, wholesale specialty baking company located in Valparaiso, Indiana. I developed premium gluten-free baked goods and baking mixes created with my own blend of gluten-free flour.
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Willowbrook Farms
Cassopolis, Michigan
At Willowbrook Farms, we're more than just farmers; we're stewards of the land and guardians of a healthier future. Nestled in the heart of Cassopolis, Michigan, our family-owned farm is a testament to our passion for sustainable agriculture.
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Windy City Mushroom
Chicago, Illinois
Our Story Windy City Mushroom was founded 3 years ago in 2020. With the start of the pandemic, healthy resources became scarce and mushrooms were out of stock in nearly every grocery store and co-op. Chicago needed a sustainable option for local consumers, thus Windy City Mushroom was born. Located in the Ford City neighborhood of Chicago, we pride ourselves on growing the finest premium gourmet mushrooms Chicago has to offer at an affordable price.
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Yaggy Road Roasting Co.
Valparaiso, Indiana
Yaggy Road Roasting Co was born in a dorm room in 2016. In the beginning, it was just three friends who loved coffee and creating community by sharing a cup. The passion for a perfect cup sparked a roasting journey that has made Yaggy into what it is today: a boutique, direct-trade, roaster focused on sustainable sourcing and meticulously roasting the best coffee we possibly can.
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Yeastie Boy Baking Co.
Valparaiso, Indiana
All products baked from scratch in Valparaiso, Indiana
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Zandstras Farm
Highland, Indiana
Zandstra's Greenhouse is family owned and operated, proudly growing in Northwest Indiana since 1903.
Check back regularly, our producer list is regularly growing!
