Shopping with Windy City Harvest
Plus a save the date for a farm-to-fork fundraising feast, and this week's market sked
Windy City Harvest is Back at South Loop Market
I realized over the weekend that I forgot to post about my late Thursday visit to the South Loop Farmers Market Grant Park — and to note that Windy City Harvest, which for some time was a regular at the original South Loop market in Printers Row, is back.
Windy City Harvest is a non-profit run by Chicago Botanic Garden as its urban agriculture program that, in their words, “builds resilient and sustainable communities through food, health and jobs.”
Windy City Harvest provides a range of programs (see flyer above) at its urban farms — includes its Farm on Ogden complex in Lawndale — that are mostly located in under-resourced communities on Chicago’s South and West sides.
Click the button below to learn more about Windy City Harvest’s work, and visit their booth at the South Loop Farmers Market if you want an easy (and tasty) way to support their efforts.
Save the Date: Illinois Stewardship Alliance Feast
If you are a local food fan in the Chicago area (or elsewhere) and you want to support the efforts of our state’s leading organization advocating for better-for-people, better-for-the-planet public policy, then here’s a date you should save.
Illinois Stewardship Alliance has scheduled its Farm-to-Fork Feast for Saturday, October 7, and it will be held in the Chicago suburb of Naperville at the McDonald Farm, 10S404 Knoch Knolls Rd.
More details, including ticket info, coming soon, but put it on your calendar now.