The Canary Report

Michael Walkup’s farm grows

Posted on Oct 12, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Home & Garden, Michael Walkup, Susie Collins

Canary Report contributor Michael Walkup, who advises us on Multiple Chemical Sensitivity disability claims, is featured in local press about his family farm.

Northwest Herald reports on Canary Report contributor Michael Walkup, attorney-at-law, who runs Heritage Farm and Gardens. Michael took his family’s land in Illinois and turned it into a small organic farm. In addition to supplying local restaurants, he also serves about 50 subscribers to his Consumer Supported Agriculture program, where his customers pay upfront to receive a box of fresh, organic produce that ripened that week.

CRYSTAL LAKE – A veritable cornucopia of McHenry County’s bounty is picked up each week in boxes at Michael Walkup’s small Crystal Lake farm on the street that bears his family’s name.

His family goes back six generations on the land, so the tomatoes are not the only heirloom that he has on his farm across from Veterans Acres Park.

For the past five years, Walkup has been feeding a small, but steadily growing, population in McHenry County – locavores, people who buy and consume produce that is grown locally. [...]

Walkup said his customers did it to know where their food comes from.

“You go to the store and you don’t know what the food has been treated with,” said Walkup, an attorney who works with people who have chemical sensitivities and who got turned onto organic farming after developing a chemical sensitivity himself.

Link to Michael’s columns on MCS and disability claims here.

Michael is an experienced disability attorney with more than 25 years experience in the disability law field. In 2001, he became disabled due to Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS). He now provides a service to advise clients with potential disability claims who have MCS, CFS and/or FMS. As these programs and law are usually federal, he is able to practice in all 50 states and, therefore, represent clients regardless of location.

Michael is a long time Sustaining Member of the National Organization for Social Security Claimants’ Representatives, the only national body for disability representatives. He is also certified as a Federal Trial Lawyer and is admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veteran’s Claims.

Michael would welcome the opportunity to possibly help with disability claims. For more information, visit his website MCS Legal Help at walkuplaw.com. Contact info: email MJWalkup@Amertech.net or call 866-880-4878.

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Editor’s note: This post was revised on 10/13, correcting the term Consumer Supported Agriculture, which I had mistakenly written as Community Supported Agriculture.

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