A Family Tradition

Susie's Garden Patch, situated in Garden Prairie, IL on Highway 20, have strawberries and vegetables for U-Picking such as peas, lettuce, spinach, tomatoes, fall decorations, pumpkins and much more.

Susie's Garden Patch is the only U-Pick Farm in Boone County and the surrounding area. Costumers can pick from a large variety fruits and vegetables at wholesale prices.

Susie's Garden Patch was started by Douglas and Susan Silberhorn and their three girls in 1985 and is family owned and family operated. It has developed into the place to go for the juiciest and sweetest strawberries around. Children will enjoy the playground and seeing the animals that are raised for the family.

Susie's Garden Patch grows luscious strawberries and vegetables sprayed with the lowest amounts of chemicals possible. It can be challenging for us to grow fruit and vegetables that way, but it's important to us that you have pure, delicious, worry-free vegetables that's safe to eat!

We are not a "box" store and we don't have aisles and aisles of generic food items. We have open fields, animals in the pasture and a International tractor parked at the side door. We sell what we grow, we pick it the day it is ripe, we allow our customers to go to the fields to pick for themselves and we encourage them to ask questions and meet our families.

We are not organic, however; we use organic practices along with IPM (Integrated Pest Management) and sustainable practices.

I suggest visiting the web site: ww.safefruitsandveggies.com
It provides tools and resources for growers and consumers can use to obtain scientific based information on pesticide residues.

At Susie's Garden Patch, you can pick all the goodness of your own garden without the mess.

Come and See the goodness,
Pick the freshest
and Taste the sweetest
at Susie's.

We at Susie's invite you to share an old fashioned day on the farm.