Weekly Link Roundup – June 24

Midwest Good Food

• Thanks to MightyVine, You Can Have Local Tomatoes, 365 Days a Year, Modern Farmer
• Organic, healthy baby food, Crain’s
• Chicago Restaurant, Kankakee Farm, Fooditor
• The Chewing Podcast, Episode 10: GMO Yo or No, Soundcloud
• A Sustainable Farm Rises from the Ashes of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, Munchies
• Detroit Public Schools launches Friday farmers markets at two schools, Detroit News

National Good Food Conversation

• Women Take Over the Family Farm, The Atlantic
• For some growers, farmers markets just aren’t what they used to be, Washington Post
• A Missing Puzzle Piece For Farmers: Organic Seed, Civil Eats
• Funiture Giant IKEA Wants to Help Restaurants Build Their Own Indoor Farms, Food & Wine
• Elon Musk’s brother is opening a restaurant where everything is under $5, TechInsider
• Kellogg’s creates a new fund, 1894, to back food and related startups, TechCrunch
• How Naomi Starkman’s Using Journalism to Change Food Policy, Modern Farmer
• ‘Sustainable’: Film Review, Hollywood Reporter
• The price of LEDs is falling so fast it’s profitable to farm in a New Jersey nightclub, Quartz
• Will indoor, vertical farming help us feed the planet — or hurt it?, Washington Post
• How John Muir Is Revolutionizing the Farm-to-Table Food Movement, The Atlantic (2014)

Upcoming Events – Chicago Region

• Local Foods’ 1st Anniversary Party – Chicago,  IL
  Local Foods is throwing a 1st anniversary party for its retail store in the Bucktown neighborhood of Chicago. Local Foods is an innovative purveyor of fresh local produce, meats from The Butcher & Larder and artisan foods, and is home to Stock Cafe. The party will be held in the store’s parking lot and will include cookout treats and craft beverages for purchase. Admission is free, but an RSVP is requested.
• Openfields Farm Tour – Rockford, IL
  U of I Extension is happy to announce that Openfields Farm Tour will be on Saturday, June 25th from 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. On this self-guided tour, visit local producers and learn about locally grown food! View a map of the participating farms.
• Growing Home’s Summer Open House – Chicago, IL

  Join Growing Home for their first open house of 2016! Take tours of Chicago’s first and only USDA-certified organic production farms. Learn to prepare delicious, healthy recipes at cooking demonstrations and snack on bites made with local produce. Plenty of kids activities, learning opportunities, and more! Suggested $10 donation. Free to Englewood residents.

• Illinois Stewardship Alliance’s Summer Shindig – Bloomington, IL
  Illinois Stewardship Alliance’s Summer Shindig brings together members from all corners of the state and is their way of saying “Thank You” to their supporters. Enjoy a tour of Epiphany Farms (9591 North 1540 East Road, Bloomington, IL 61705) followed by food, music and more at Epiphany Farms Restaurant (220 E Front St, Bloomington, IL 61701) in Bloomington.

• At the Fork Film Screening (FamilyFarmed is a promotional sponsor)
  Filmmaker and omnivore John Papola, together with his vegetarian wife Lisa, offer up a timely and refreshingly unbiased look at how farm animals are raised for our consumption. With unprecedented access to large-scale conventional farms, Papola asks the tough questions behind every hamburger, glass of milk and baby-back rib. What he discovers are not heartless industrialists, but America’s farmers — real people who, along with him, are grappling with the moral dimensions of farming animals for food.