FARMERS MARKETS l It's still summer, and a visit to Green City Market, as it prepared for its epic Chef BBQ, showed mostly peak season with a few signs of fall...

FARMS & FARMERS l Our favorite corn farmers has harvested her last ears of the year. They say that all good things come to an end, but that is still kind of sad...

FARMERS MARKETS l Local Food Forum's Chicago Farmers Market Tracker is a resource to help people across the area to find delicious, healthy local food. Weekly update

FOOD HUBS l Farmers markets are the most visible outlets for local farmers to sell their products. But aggregators such food hubs provide alternatives for producers

FARMERS MARKETS l After a last August market visit, we can confirm that the peak growing season is still in full swing... and the summer/autumn overlap has begun...

FARMERS MARKETS l The opening created when Green City Executive Director Letisha Steele completed her tenure will be filled on an interim basis by Board leaders...

FARMERS MARKETS l Chicagoans have endured summer conditions that were too hot, humid, rainy and/or smoky. So a weekend of near-perfect weather a dream come true...

FARMERS MARKETS l Chicago's long-running Lincoln Square Farmers Market is back to its usual — but spruced up — surroundings near to the CTA's Western Brown Line stop

LOCAL FOOD l The season's 1st watermelon Bob Benenson of Local Food Forum got from 3 Sisters Garden was 18 pounds. If it's a typical year, he ain't seen nothin' yet

FOOD POLICY l Local officials from Illinois' Will County advocate for a bipartisan proposal to establish local "Good Food for All" policies across the U.S....