The Chicago Tribune August 6, 2008 Good Eating section featured an article entitled Roadside Americana: The farm stand has a place in our hearts- and we’re happy to report, on MapQuest too by Emily Nunn:
And with the help of readers, who sent us their favorites by e-mail and post (see list), we headed straight to two contrasting but charming examples of what “farm stand” (and even “family farm”) can mean today.
Now, we have hope for an America that cares more about farming to feed its people than farming to feed its cars.At the suggestion of Mary Ann Schwarzbach of Geneva, we drove 35 miles from the heart of Chicago past the modern menagerie of big brand-name stores, through affluent lanes of Lincolnshire to a different land altogether, to Prairie View, where we paid a surprise visit to Mary Sue Didier and her son, John, at Didier Farms.
They are part of a family that has hung on through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the land squeeze of suburban sprawl and the precipitous rise of global agribusiness giants like Cargill (whose profits from commodity trading for the first quarter of 2008 were 86 percent higher than the same period in 2007). Which is something special, because since the 1940s, the number of farms has dropped to 2 million from 6 million Read More…
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The Chicago Tribune August 1, 2008 Metro section featured an article on the 3rd Annual Veggie Fest, a two day community event, the largest event of this kind in Chicagoland, expected to draw 10,000 people in Naperville Illinois.
Enjoy delicious healthy food, live bands, and great talks from professionals. Visit the vendors and pick up valuable information on healthy living. Discover something new about your own health by participating in on site screenings. All of this with no admission charge and free drawings for prizes.
- Children programs-face paintings, crafts, singing
- Live music‚ bluegrass, folk, jazz and latino
- Cooking demonstrations with sampling
- Health talks by medical experts
- 40 food vendors-restaurants-exhibitors
- 11 health-education booths
- Blood pressure, lung capacity, body fat, & sugar level measurements
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The Chicago Tribune, May 14, 2008 newspaper featured the Geneva Green Market in the Good Eating section about green farmers markets entitled “The Greening of Chicago” by Elizabeth Owens-Schiele:
[Geneva Green Market is ] devoted to education of the health-giving nature of locally grown food, sustainability and conservation of resources… The market has local farmers from within a 200-mile radius of Geneva.
West Suburban Living magazine, May/June 2008 issue featured the Geneva Green Market in a piece entitled “Going Green” by Sara Pearsaul Vice.
Exciting news - food is something we all share everyday, getting the word out to people who seek to be greener in their everyday lives is always great and bodes well for the success of the 2008 Geneva Green Market season!
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