FARMERS MARKETS l A tour of Chicago's Green City Market featured Local Food Forum, Naturally Chicago, Green City's executive director, and two chef-philanthropists

LOCAL FOOD l It's one of my favorite annual rituals: receiving a watermelon of immense size from one of my favorite Illinois farmers. Get a load of this 22-pounder..

FARMERS MARKETS l The show and pop-up market presented by Ravinia summer music festival and Ravinia Farmers Market Aug. 20 can be the dream concert picnic...

LOCAL FOOD l One of my favorite times of the year is when I receive my first humongous watermelon from my farmer friend at Three Sisters Garden in Kankakee, Illinois

FARMERS MARKETS l Local Food Forum got its first 2025 sighting of watermelons at a Chicago market, checking off one of the few favorite summer crops to hit town...

FARM NON-PROFITS l Just Roots, a Chicago urban farming non-profit, is receiving an award for its community arts project at its farm in south suburban Sauk Village...

URBAN FARMING l The latest in my series about the beauty of growing season at Chicago's Just Roots urban farm, where I do a bi-weekly CSA subscription pickup...

FARMERS MARKETS l No two growing seasons are exactly alike. Happily, in the Chicago region, this season has been superb... and much of the produce is super-sized...

FARMS & FARMERS l How many volunteers does it take to pick a garlic bulb? Find out by pitching in at Garlic eScape Farm, located in the Chicago exurb of Woodstock...

FARMERS MARKETS l A flawed rain forecast sent Bob of Local Food Forum to the farmers market super-early, but there was a upside to Bob's Farmers Market Sweep...