FARMERS MARKETS l Ed Kugler contributes to Local Food Forum with his Farmers Market Reporter series. This week kicks off his day job as a farmers market manager...

FARMERS MARKETS l Ed Kugler, the intrepid Farmers Market Reporter, visited the markets in the Chicago suburbs of Arlington Heights & Downers Grove. Lots of photos...

FARMERS MARKETS l When Ed Kugler isn't busy managing a farmers market, he's visiting others as Farmers Market Reporter. This report features 2 far-flung markets...

FARMERS MARKETS l The Chicago region's farmers market season is well under way. And yet... the biggest surge of market openings comes next week, the first in June

FARMERS MARKETS l Chilly, drizzly weather at the opener for Chicago's Daley Plaza Farmers Market wasn't ideal, but the debut of a favorite fruit brightened the day..

FARMERS MARKET REPORTER l Veteran market manager Ed Kugler ventured from Chicago's South Side to the city's southwest suburbs to attend outdoor season openings for two prominent markets

FARMERS MARKETS l Chicago on Saturday was definitely a windy Windy City. This article recaps visits to two farmers markets that capped a week of weather that was weird even for Chicago

FARMERS MARKETS l Daley Plaza Farmers Market, a pillar of Chicago's local food community, has one thing no other area farmers market has: an internationally significant work of art

FARMERS MARKETS l A generally cool early spring is slowing the arrival of some seasonal crops. Rhubarb has joined asparagus in great piles on farmers market tables, but not a lot of a variety yet

LOCAL FOOD l There are so many ways to support local farmers, including farmers markets, CSA subscriptions and farm stores. I don't often hit all three in one day, but that's how this past Saturday played out