While this isn’t a comprehensive list of every Kilgus Farmstead mention in the press, it does represent a good mix of many of the great write-ups we’ve received. Many thanks to all of you who have taken the time to visit the farm or interview our family. We appreciate all of the stories you’ve shared on our behalf!
2017
Time Out Chicago: The 13 Best Day Trips from Chicago
Chicago Athletic Hotel: What’s Cooking at Cindy’s – Kilgus Dairy
2016
Munchies: How Chicago’s Best Restaurants Get Their Goat
Harvest Market Travelog: Kilgus Farmstead
Chicago Magazine: The 20 Best Desserts in Chicago (RPM Steak’s Coffee Custard includes Kilgus Farmstead cream!)
Chicagoly Magazine: Foodtopia: Local, fresh food in Chicago is more complex than it sounds
Time Out Chicago: The 13 best day trips from Chicago
Illinois Homepage WCIA-TV: Made in Illinois: Kilgus Farms Egg Nog
2015
The Kitchen: Meet The Kitchen Purveyor Series – Interview with Justin Kilgus of Kilgus Farmstead
Agriculture.com: Kilgus Dairy: Cream Rises to the Top
Central Illinois Business: Cover Story: Kilgus Farmstead
Farm Fresh Answers: Farm Fresh Podcast: Milk Makers
2014
Big Grove Tavern: BGT Staff Visit to Kilgus Farmstead
Buy Fresh Buy Local Central Illinois: Meet Matt Kilgus of Kilgus Farmstead
Mackinson Dairy Farm: Meet Jenna Kilgus of Kilgus Farmstead from Illinois
Illinois Farmer Today: Family affair
Farm Progress: Adding sales, not cows
Dairy Herd Management: Young Farmer: Creating and establishing our value-added product
2012
Deseret News: SPOTLIGHT: Central Illinois Provides Sustainable Food
The Pantagraph: Chicago looks to Central Illinois for its sustainable food, crops
2011
Feast Magazine: The Feed: Kilgus Farmstead’s Milk Now Available in Missouri
2010
Chicago Magazine names Kilgus Farmstead Best Milk in Chicago
Big Jones Restaurant blog: On the Farm at Kilgus Farmstead
My Foodshed: Know Your Milk, Know Your Dairy, Part 2
Zester Daily: Marketing Local Milk
2009
Time Out Chicago: Trent and Justin Kilgus – At Pleasant Meadows Farms, it’s kids raising kids.
The Pantagraph: Central Illinois’ only farmstead milk bottling creamery debuts
Peoria Journal Star: Heartland: Fairbury dairy farm calls on three generations of experience