Weekly Link Roundup – July 1

Midwest Good Food

• Impact Engine raises $10 million fund, ends accelerator, Chicago Tribune
• New tool by SPINS and IRI to give natural channel retailers ‘unprecedented advantage’, Food Navigator
• How consumer demand is resurrecting ancient grains from the past, Food Navigator
• More Produce Carts Coming As Rahm Slashes License Fee, DNAInfo
• Is Whole Vegetable Cooking the Next Culinary Frontier? Chicago chefs find new ways to cook old vegetables, Eater Chicago
• Locavore Farm presents another season of dining on the land, NWITimes
• North Shore gardens give their bounty away, Chicago Tribune
• This City Is Home to 820 Urban Farms and Quickly Becoming America’s Urban Ag Capital, EcoWatch
• Illinois Tech grows smart farm that will grab solar power, water itself, Chicago Tribune
• Tomatoes grown under glass gracing city menus year round, ABC7
• East Chicago greenhouse brings produce to residents, NWITimes
• Cheap Eats: Stock Cafe worth hunting down for locally sourced fare, Chicago Tribune

National Good Food Conversation

• How to Revive Local Agriculture in the United States, The Atlantic
  
• Senators reach deal on GMO labeling, Chicago Tribune
  
• Michael Pollan on lapsed vegetarians, expensive meat, presidential election, Chicago Tribune
  
• Now Even Fast-Food Chains Are Getting Into Farming Their Own Produce, FastCoExist
  
• Why These Die-Hard Nature Lovers Want You To Eat The Plants They Find On The Forest Floor, GOOD
• In Quest For Happier Chickens, Perdue Shifts How Birds Live And Die, NPR The Salt
  
• How Design Thinking and Lean Startup Approaches Are Fostering Agtech Innovation, AgFunder 
  
• A Bike-Powered Local Food Movement Is Heading to a Town Near You, Takepart
  
• Elon Musk’s entrepreneur brother reveals 4 predictions for the future of food, Business Insider

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