Jeremy Mayne turned off the spigot midmorning Monday that controls the hoses inside a plastic-walled structure that house plants teeming with bright red strawberries. Up until this week, the water that dripped from the irrigation lines that stretch across much of the 15-acre Mayneland Farm had been the only source of moisture to nourish the vegetables and berries he grows to sell at the on-site farm stand at the southeast corner of Bauer Road and Mill Street in Naperville. Although his farm received nine-tenths of an inch of rain this week as of Friday morning, Mayne said he could use 5 inches more.
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