Carrots, can you believe carrots at the Green City Market last week? Okay, they were carrots from Growing Home that were planted in the winter time. But they still were real, live, local carrots. I think one of the pleasures, although the farmers who g... »
Carrots, can you believe carrots at the Green City Market last week? Okay, they were carrots from Growing Home that were planted in the winter time. But they still were real, live, local carrots. I think one of the pleasures, although the farmers who g... »
The vegetables keep coming! I have to admit, I am a vegetable addict. Something about the look of freshly harvested vegetables, like the radishes above, embody such vibrance and freshness, that I love just walking around the market looking at all the v... »
The vegetables keep coming! I have to admit, I am a vegetable addict. Something about the look of freshly harvested vegetables, like the radishes, embody such vibrance and freshness. See what vegetables you can find this week with our Local Calendar an... »
Good weather brings people out to the markets!!! Slowly but surely more greens are showing up at the markets. My Beet colleague Wendy Aeschlimann has written a great write-up on what she found at the Green City Market lseveral weeks ago and you can rea... »
Local Beets, I realize I am preachng to the choir here, but Paula, my colleague, at Tiny Greens at the Green City Market is right, when the weather gets really cold, less people come out to the markets. For me, the rooms where the Green City Market res... »
Local Beets, I realize I am preachng to the choir here, but Paula, my colleague, at Tiny Greens at the Green City Market is right, when she tells me that when the weather gets really cold, less people come out to the markets. For me, the rooms where th... »
This week, Congress very very quietly lifted a five-year-old ban on funding horse-meat inspections, which, essentially, means that within a month slaughterhouses can be pushing horse back to market for human consumption. Illinois actually was the last ... »
