The Geneva Green Market, NFP group is devoted to education of the health-giving nature of locally grown food, local sustainability, and conservation of resources. We are located at the Geneva Green Market, a green Farmers Market in Geneva, IL.
Join in The GGM membership
Your contributions support educational programs, lectures and the commitment to the health-giving nature of locally grown food, sustainability and conservation of resources. Your membership includes a range of benefits that are feature below:
- Seed Membership ($25 or more donation) – you will receive a coffee mug/GGM discount card – honored at concurring businesses/events. Membership Specials.
- Planting Membership ($50 or more donation) – the above membership and $10 off the season’s lectures/classes.
- Sprouting Membership ($100 or more donation) – the above membership and a lunch for two at the Geneva Green Market.
- Growing Membership ($250 or more donation) – the above membership and (20% off home cooking demonstration by Jennifer Downing, Nourish) Learn useful cooking techniques with locally grown food.
- Harvest Membership ($500 or more donation) – the above membership and a basket filled the freshest products from the Geneva Green Market
- Geneva Green Market Benefactor ($1000 or more donation) – the above membership and will receive a dinner for two at Niche Restaurant in Geneva. (Excludes alcohol and gratuity).
Membership is tax-deductible minus fair market value of gift.
To join the GGM,NFP membership send a email to info [at] genevagreenmarket [dot] org or call 630.377.0373.
Harry Brockman, a farmer in central Illinois who won the National Sustainability Award, stated in his book, Organic Matters:
“It sounds naïve, perhaps even self-important, but in my very small way, I am working to save the world. And every time you eat truly organic food that is grown and sold locally, you too, are working to save the world.”
We feel our farmers at the Geneva Green Market share this sentiment—come be a part of saving the world, one plate at a time.
Karen Stark
Founder of the Geneva Green Market, NFP
What:
GENEVA GREEN MARKET – locally grown, minimally processed produce and products will be available from the Geneva Green Market to chefs, foodies and everyday people.
Where:
75 N RIVER LANE, GENEVA IL 60134
When:
Thursdays
June 3 through October 28, 2010
7:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Contact:
email us
630.377.0373
Location is at 75 N. River Lane , in the picturesque park along the west side of the mighty Fox River.
Farmers and products vendors from within 200 miles of Geneva, IL are invited to join the Geneva Green Market.
Chef Jeremy Lycan of Geneva’s Niche Restaurant (recently named one of the top 100 restaurants by Chicago magazine), and Mark Weaver of Geneva’s Inglenook Pantry (recently written up in The Chicago Tribune for their “to-die-for Chicken Tetrazzini”) are both actively involved in getting local chefs to support the Geneva Green Market and buy fresh, locally grown product, as well as offering the public educational information and demonstrations on cooking with fresh produce.
The Geneva Green Market also supports Geneva merchants who offer “green” products, and will actively help those merchants get the word out if they have green products available.
Farmers’ market produce is renowned for being locally-grown and very fresh. People argue farmers’ markets allow farmers to pick produce at the peak of flavor, preserve the nutritional content of fresh produce, and since locally-grown produce does not travel as far to get to your table, the difference in mileage saves fossil fuels.
Farmers’ markets often feature produce grown naturally or organically, meats that are raised humanely on pasture, handmade farmstead cheeses, eggs and poultry from free-range fowl, as well as heirloom produce and heritage breeds of meat and fowl.
Farmers’ markets advocates help farmers stay in business as well as preserve natural resources. Wholesale prices farmers get for their produce are very low, often near the cost of production. Farmers who sell direct to the public without going through a middle man get a better price. It can be shown that the preservation of farmland is important for the health of the environment and water supply. According to the American Farmland Trust, sustainable and managed farms conserve soil and clean water and provide a habitat for wildlife. Moreover, modern farmers’ markets help maintain important social ties, linking rural and urban populations and even close neighbors in mutually rewarding exchange …
Local food (also regional food) or the local food movement is a “collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies – one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place” [1] and is considered to be a part of the broader sustainability movement. It is part of the concept of local purchasing and local economies, a preference to buy locally produced goods and services. Those who prefer to eat locally grown/produced food sometimes call themselves “localvores” or locavores …
[ source: Wikipedia.org ]
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Short description:
Green farmers market with organic produce, meat & dairy from local family farms – sustainable fresh food…
Longer description:
The Geneva Green Market, NFP group is devoted to education of the health-giving nature of locally grown food, sustainability and conservation of resources — we are located at the Geneva Green Market. The Market has local Farmers within 200 mile radius of Geneva Illinois. These farmers are dedicated to bringing the freshest from their fields directly to your plate!
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