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Locally grown, locally produced foods taking hold

by Cassandra West September 18, 2011 Chicago
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Share Take a look around and perhaps you’ve noticed a trend we’ve been following recently: the growth of locally produced specialty foods and drinks. Increasingly, local foods entrepreneurs are moving beyond selling produce fresh from the garden or farm. Many are now turning locally grown produce into condiments, teas, seasonings, herbal tinctures, bath and body [...]

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Chicago Public Schools to buy more produce from Illinois farmers

by Cassandra West July 16, 2010 Economic development
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Share The food service provider for Chicago Public Schools plans to increase the produce it buys from Illinois farmers. Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality is asking farmers to contract for $500,000 of fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables in addition to the $1.8 million in local farm products purchased last year, the food service company said in a [...]

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Local food production could yield big economic benefits

by Cassandra West May 16, 2010 Green movement

Share If Midwestern farmers raised the fruit and vegetables eaten in the Heartland, they could create thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in income, according to a study reported recently by the Associated Press. The Iowa State University study looked at what would happen if farmers in six states — Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, [...]

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Wholesome Wave Foundation funds 'Link Bucks' at Farmers Markets

by Cassandra West April 28, 2010 Community

Share Link card users will get more beans for their bucks at Chicago Farmers Market this season thanks to a grant from the Wholesome Wave Foundation to fund a Double Value Coupon Program. Experimental Station and the City of Chicago announced last week a program to accept Link (food stamps) at five city-run farmers markets [...]

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Oscar-Nominated Documentary Tackles Food Production

by Editor April 21, 2010 Grocery stores

Share By Susan Richardson Food, Inc., a documentary that explores America’s industrialized food system and its effect on the environment, health, and economy, will be shown tonight, Wednesday, April 21, at 9 p.m. on WTTW 11.   The film, which was nominated for an Oscar, examines major issues surrounding food and food production: factory farming, genetic engineering, [...]

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May 1 is deadline for farmers market listings on state dept of agriculture website

by Cassandra West April 18, 2010 Farmers markets

Share To have your farmers market be included and updated on the Illinois Department of Agriculture’s website, contact Delayne Reeves by May 1st. See details below. This information is important for government agencies (local, federal, state) to have an accurate count of farmers markets and where they are located. Decisions about funding, etc., will be [...]

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A full-service supermarket for the Near West Side?

by Cassandra West April 5, 2010 Community

Share Chicago’s Near West Side may be getting a 60,000-square-foot full-service supermarket by next summer if the city’s Community Development Commission approves the plan, Crain’s Chicago Business reported today. Pete’s Fresh Market, which operates six stores on the city’s South and Southwest sides and sells organic products, would construct a new store on the southeast [...]

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