Destination of the Day

This is cool. Business partners Walt Gregory and Lynne Weis own and operate an organic pizza farm in Illinois. The farm is a circular half-acre plot which they have divided into “slices.” A pizza ingredient is grown on each slice. Tomatoes and peppers, fennel and rosemary – all grow organically on the farm on their respective slices. A cow, three goats, some chickens and a few pigs also reside on the pizza.

The pizza farm helps to add to Gregory’s and Weis’s bottom line, which can be grim for a conventional farmer, let alone an organic farmer. Gregory is blunt about his commitment to organics:

Gregory hopes to educate guests about organic growing. He makes no bones about his opposition to corporations behind agricultural biotechnology or farmers who use herbicide-resistant products he considers dangerous.

"Someone's got to stand against them. That's what I try to accomplish with the pizza farm," said Gregory, who elsewhere on his spread grows asparagus, zucchini, watermelon, cantaloupe, strawberries, squash, pumpkins and corn.

Yum.