Slagel Farms

Louis John Slagel and his family raises the highest level of protein possible to make each table experience the best it can be. I've been blessed to know and work with this family for many years and see the vision and passion behind what makes this farm so sustainable.

Amazing farm and loved hearing the story. There event space was great and the tour was a lot of fun.

Ww had the best ever turkey in 2024 from Slagel Farms via Sunset Foods. You can tell the difference! Thanks and hooe to connect with more of your fantastic produce..

We've eaten eggs and bacon from Slagel Farms at Wicked Egg in Libertyville and just had one of their turkeys for Thanksgiving. All were exceptional!

I would never have thought that this is the perfect way for a city gal like me to spend a Saturday afternoon, but it was beyond my expectations. From the fun bus ride to the farm to the snacks, tours of both the butchering facility and farm, meeting and getting to spend time with this wonderful family who has so much pride, talent and genuine business sense to get something like this up and running...it was wonderful. I got to experience some incredible food from the chefs of Rootstock and Found. It was an honor to enjoy such wonderful food with some really great people. This is a must do if you are looking for a quality meal in an environment much different from your usual city spots. I highly recommend making this a date or going with a small group of friends. Can't say enough about what a wonderful experience this truly was!

I had a really great time at the farm. The Slagel family is really friendly and makes you feel at home with them. They have healthy animals and seem to love what they do. The farm dinner was really yummy and unlike anything I've ever experienced.

I was fortunate enough to win the reviewing contest so we went to the Slagel Family Farm Dinner Saturday August 9 2014. We met at Rootstock wine and beer bar around noon. We were asked to be there by 11:45 because the bus would be leaving by noon. The bus got there around 1pm. The bus ride was 2 hours, but passed by fairly quickly because of the people on the bus were so much fun. Once we got there, they had snacks waiting for us. Something made from hog's head, almost like a pate, it was good. Some sauteed diced chicken livers, also good, and something made from pork belly. It was too fatty for my taste. From there we went to the butcher shop, a short bus ride away. one of the Slagel family butchered a lamb for us. We were able to purchase some of that, I got a leg of lamb and had them cut it into steaks. Learned alot about butchering meat. Back at the farm we went on tours, saw pigs, chickens cows, goats and sheep. I also got some fresh eggs. then we had dinner. I won't give a blow by blow for every item, just want to say we enjoyed everything. We sat next to the matriarch and patriarch of the family. They were so warm and friendly. Had to say it was a very fun way to spend a Saturday, we would go again.

We had a wonderful Mother’s Day with almost the whole family, we hope you did too. The prime rib was so great and tender and everyone loved it. Thank you again for your special meats!!

This farm to table dinner, prepared by incredible chefs and an inside look into where your food is coming from is just WOW. I would never have thought that this is the perfect way for a city gal like me to spend a Saturday afternoon, but it was beyond my expectations. From the fun bus ride to the farm to the snacks, tours of both the butchering facility and farm, meeting and getting to spend time with this wonderful family who has so much pride, talent and genuine business sense to get something like this up and running...it was wonderful. I got to experience some incredible food from the chefs of Rootstock and Found. It was an honor to enjoy such wonderful food with some really great people. This is a must do if you are looking for a quality meal in an environment much different from your usual city spots. I highly recommend making this a date or going with a small group of friends. Can't say enough about what a wonderful experience this truly was!

I am on the bus ride back to Chicago as I write this review that is how excited I am. We just spent the entire day at Slagel getting a butchering demo, an extensive tour of the farm, and enjoying a dinner prepared by Jason Hammel of Lula Cafe/no-more Nightwood and Mike Simmons of Rootstock/soon-to-come Calaugusta Cafe (bonus pts if you can tell me what intersection that'll be at! Hint: it's quite obvious). I've seen Slagel on so many Chicago restaurant menus, besides the above mentioned: Publican, Girl and the Goat, Perennial Virant, Trenchermen, Owen and Engine, just to name a few. I really loved learning about their practices of small farm farming and their stance behind the quality of their meats. Chicken should taste like chicken MIRITE?!? We met their cows and sheep and goats and pigs and piglets galore! Pretty sure by the end the bf was tired of all my Babe quotes. LouisJohn does a great job telling the story and giving the tour. He's just a likeable guy. The tour was very conversational and he answered any questions we had. Cost per person is currently $125 and well worth it. They offer a charter bus that picks you up at a location downtown, most likely at one of the restaurants of the chefs, if you don't want to make the scenic 2 hour drive of corn. Dinner is BYOB so you may want to take advantage of the bus anyway. Highly recommended if you're looking for a Saturday outing. They offer tours/dinners with rotating chefs a couple times a month (I think there's one left in October for this year!!!!). We had about 50ish people total in the group. They have a cute little event space where snacks and dinner are served. It's communal seating and we met some lovely people. And I don't know what farm those grapes were from but they were amazing. PRO TIP: Bring a cooler, you'll want to buy some cuts of meat off the freshly butchered animal. They also sell eggs and some frozen cuts. I'm hesitant to post pics of the experience because you should just go enjoy it for yourself!! I've had a lot of wine with dinner so I'm gonna go take a nap now for the remainder of this bus ride.