Let’s keep nutrition easy
Know that your food is nutritious, your farmer sustainable, and where the food came from.
Fresh Local, Microgreens
Growing Food in a City
At Spira Farms we grow food for our local community in Downtown Lemont, Illinois.
Chicagoland has a major problem in that we are a food desert, most of our food comes from out of state.
Produce especially is brought from out of state, and losses a ton of its nutrition getting to us. We grow microgreens indoors year-round to solve this problem.
What are Microgreens?
Baby plants that are up to 40x more nutritious than the adult. It’s so dense with nutrition it is easy for the whole family to get what they need.
Best part? These baby plants are ready to eat. Open the package and go. No need for preparation, just put it in the sandwich. Do you want to eat 3 lbs. of adult broccoli or 1oz of microgreen broccoli? The choice is easy.
Alright, how does it work?
Let’s keep it simple:
1. Order your greens
2. We contact you over text / email on when your delivery is coming.
3. Day before delivery we harvest your greens, and text you as a reminder.
4. Day of delivery we drop it off, and will text you that its there.
5. At any time, if you ever need to delay an order, or want to change it up you can always text / email / come to this site to do so.
Simplify your Families Needs
Nutritious, and sustainable.
Health
1. Produce losses 30-50% of their vitamin C, and 44-80% of their anti-inflammatory properties getting to us from out of state.
2. Make sure your food is fresh, we will bring it to you within 24 hours of harvest.
Sulforaphane is between 23-51x more potent in microgreen broccoli than the adult. Here’s what was found in studies:
- Prostate cancer patients that consumed 60mg of Sulforaphane daily had their cancer growth doubling time take 86% longer than those who didn’t take it. Meaning it grew significantly slower.
- In lab tests, sulforaphane was injected into breast cancer stem cells, to only watch the cancer disappear, the cancer cells were eliminated.
Sustainability
The containers and bags we bring you are made from plants. They are all compostable, and the practice is sustainable. They look and feel like plastic, but its really just corn and sugarcane.
Let’s get logistics out of the way. We don’t need lettuce from California. We can grow food here in Chicagoland year-round. It’s all indoors, so you know there is no pesticides. It’s easy when there are no bugs.
Broccoli Tacos
Think your friends will believe that’s broccoli on their food?
Meet the Boreks
When cancer hit the family in 2018, the Borek’s took action on what the doctors said – keep up your nutrition, and stay optimistic.
After researching about nutrition, it was discovered that all produce coming from out of state is no where near as nutritious as local.
To solve for this, microgreens began growing in Chicagoland. Friends and family wanting the nutrition started asking for the microgreens as well, and shortly after that, Spira Farms was born.
Where are these available?
Not only do we provide free delivery within 24 hours of harvest. We also provide them to your local grocery stores. Available at:
- Kramer Foods – Hinsdale
- Casey’s Foods – Naperville
- Angelo Caputo’s Fresh Markets – Naperville
- Angelo Caputo’s Fresh Markets – Orland Park
- Celina’s Fresh Market – Lemont
- Peter Rubi Fresh Market – Plainfield
