The unique suburban farm uses new farming methods to bring fresh food to impoverished communities.
The unique farm uses new farming methods to bring fresh food to impoverished communities.
It all started when Derek Drake decided he wanted to be a farmer and bring together his love for food, tiny homes, and helping others.Drake and his husband, Brad Scheiver, moved to a traditional farmhouse in Mokena earlier this year. Their plan for farming veers far away from traditional methods when they opened Ditto Foods."It's cold outside right now, but it's a perfect spring day in here," said Drake."We're replicating nature at its finest," said Drake.
"We joke that he's the heart, and I'm the head of the business. And so, my first question was, well, what can we grow?," said Brad Schiever, Ditto Foods COO and Co-owner."Ford heights, there's no grocery stores, there's no one really trying to bring clean, honest produce to those communities. So that's our mission. Our goal is to create that access," he said.Growing this business during the pandemic wasn’t easy.
"We don't need land, we don't need tractors, we don't need the dirt. We just need to purchase solely one piece of equipment. And it's near impossible to try to explain that" said Scheiver.They use an online farmer's market called Market Wagon to send produce to 7 Chicago area counties. "I harvest that morning or the night before and take it directly to their warehouse and they ship it directly. They're delivering it directly to the customers by that afternoon. So, you can't get any fresher than that," said Drake.All the news you need to know, every day
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