We are a multi-generational family farm in East Central Illinois using the latest technology to raise organic food-grade grains. We steward the land to ensure healthy soil, healthy food, and a bright future for all.
For regular updates from Harold, Ross, and others about what’s happening on Janie’s Farm, please follow us on Janie’s Mill Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok!
Grains We Offer
We supply many different grains to a wide variety of customers—from food processors or livestock farmers needing semi-loads of corn or soybeans, to brewers and distillers needing 2,000-pound totes or 50-pound bags of wheat or rye. For smaller amounts of grain (50 pounds or less), as well as milled products, please use Janie’s Mill online shop!
ORGANIC CORN: Yellow or White Hybrid, as well as Specialty Open-Pollinated Corn (limited quantities)
ORGANIC SOYBEANS: Clear or Dark Hilum
ORGANIC SMALL GRAINS: Many varieties of Wheat and Rye, as well as ancient and specialty grains available seasonally upon request.
Contact us at janiesfarm@yahoo.com and let us know how we can meet your needs.
Learn More About the Grains We Offer →
As 4th and 5th generation farmers on the fertile land of Iroquois County, IL, we are continuing our family’s tradition of caring for the soil and growing good food for our community. Harold says: “I remember the way my grandparents farmed—without the use of pesticides, and with a focus on nurturing strong soil health. I continue in their footsteps, using hand and machine cultivation instead of herbicides, and seek to leave the soil deeper, richer, and healthier than I found it.”
Our Values
We build relationships and work directly with end-users, serving large and small food companies, as well as many brewers and distillers, with our certified organic corn, soybeans, wheat, rye, oats, buckwheat, and other grains.
We grow high-quality, consumer-driven crops, and process them into healthy food
We restore the soil to its life-giving role as a healthy organism through crop rotation and cover cropping. These practices add nutrients to the soil, sequester carbon, increase water absorption, prevent soil erosion, and can suppress weeds, insect pests, and soil-borne plant diseases.
We provide jobs, on Janie’s Farm and in Janie’s Mill, that help keep our rural community healthy—economically, environmentally, and socially.
We offer land-owners an alternative farming system to conventional farming
Our Story
Janie’s Farm Organics began in 2001 after the passing of Harold and Sandy Wilken’s oldest child, Janie. In a condolence letter Harold was asked by Herman Brockman to farm his neighboring acreage organically. After 23 years of conventional farming, we began our organic journey. We have grown from 700 acres to over 3,000 acres of certified organic land, and have been blessed by God and led by Janie’s Spirit.
