Market Monday and Peas, Please
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In This Issue
• Why Subscribe?
• This Week’s Chicago/Inner Suburb Farmers Market Schedule
• Eat Your Peas, Please (with an easy recipe from Chef Abra Berens)
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This Week’s Chicago and Inner Suburb Markets
(* denotes season opener)
This is Day 2 of a major change in our farmers market listings. Because there are now so many Chicago metro markets open for the season, the full weekly schedule has outgrown the Market Monday issue of Local Food Forum. So we’ve split the list, with outer suburban and exurban markets published on Sundays (along with links to markets outside Chicago metro) starting yesterday, and the Chicago city and inner suburban markets published separately on Mondays, starting today.
We also have streamlined the listing, reducing the font size a bit so everything, including the open times, fits on one line.
Finally, welcome to the Edgewater Farmers Market, currently scheduled to run on Mondays through June… our first Monday market in Chicago proper.
Monday, June 7
Edgewater Farmers Market, 5917 N. Broadway, Chicago (June only)* 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday, June 8
Lincoln Square Tuesday Market, W. Leland & N. Lincoln Aves., Chicago, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
SOAR (Streeterville) Farmers Market, 226 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Wednesday, June 9
Andersonville Farmers Market, 1500 W. Catalpa Ave., Chicago, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Garfield Ridge Farmers Market, 6072 S. Archer Ave., Chicago, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Green City Wednesday Market, 1817 N. Clark St., Chicago, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Uptown Farmers Market, W. Wilson Ave. & Broadway, Chicago, 2:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, June 10
Austin City Market, 5610 W. Lake St., Chicago*, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Daley Plaza City Market, 50 W. Washington St., Chicago, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Growing Home Wood Street Farm Stand, 1844 W. 59th St., Chicago, Noon to 6 p.m.
Lincoln Square Thursday Market, W. Leland & N. Lincoln Aves., Chicago, 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Low-Line Market, 3400 N. Southport (at CTA Brown Line), Chicago, 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 12
Division Street City Market, 100 W. Division St., Chicago, 7 a.m. to noon
Downtown Evanston Farmers Market, 1800 Maple Ave., Evanston, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Garfield Park Neighborhood Market, 135 N. Kedzie Ave., Chicago (every other Saturday)*, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Green City Market Lincoln Park, 1817 N. Clark St., Chicago, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Green City Market West Loop, 115 S. Sangamon St., Chicago, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Horner Park Farmers Market, 2741 W. Montrose Ave., Chicago, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
NorthCenter Farmers Market, 4100 N. Damen, Chicago, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Oak Park Farmers Market, 460 Lake St., Oak Park, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Park Ridge Farmers Market, 15 Prairie Ave., Park Ridge, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Plant Chicago Farmers Market, Davis Square Park, Chicago, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
61st Street Farmers Market, 6100 S. Blackstone Ave., Chicago, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
South Chicago Farmers Market, 9000 S. Mackinaw St., Chicago, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
South Loop Farmers Market Printers Row, 632 S. Dearborn, Chicago, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The Lincoln Park Farmers Market, 2001 N. Orchard St., Chicago, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
West Humboldt Park City Market, 3601 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sunday, June 13
Glenwood Sunday Market, 1233-41 Pratt Blvd., Chicago, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Hyde Park Farmers Market, 54th St. & Old Lake Park Ave., Chicago *, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Independence Park Farmers Market, 3945 N. Springfield Ave., Chicago*, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Jefferson Park Farmers Market, 4626 N. Knox Ave., Chicago (every other Sunday)*, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Logan Square Farmers Market, 3107 W. Logan Blvd., Chicago, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
95th Street Farmers Market, 1835 W. 95th St., Chicago, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Pilsen Community Market, 1821 S. Blue Island Ave., Chicago, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Portage Park Farmers Market, 4100 N. Long Ave., Chicago, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Roscoe Village Farmers Market, 3149 N. Wolcott, Chicago, 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Skokie Farmers Market, Village Green, Skokie, 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Vegan Paradise, 1400 W. 46th St., Chicago, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Wicker Park Farmers Market, 1425 N. Damen Ave.,Chicago, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Eat Your Peas, Please
The wonderful thing about how nature stages each crop’s growing season is there is always something new and exciting hitting the market. One of this season’s latest craves is the English shelling pea.
These are the peas that are grown commercially and usually end up canned or frozen. Fortunately there are local growers who enable us to go old school and shell the peas ourselves. It’s a bit labor intensive to split open the pods and harvest the peas inside, but being able to taste super-fresh peas is such a different and rewarding experience after a lifetime of processed canned peas.
Here is a deliciously easy recipe from the outstanding veggie cookbook Ruffage (Chronicle Books) by Chef Abra Berens of Michigan’s Granor Farm. We’ll have a little more about peas tomorrow.
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