Weekly Link Roundup – July 8

Midwest Good Food

• To meet booming tofu demand, Edgewater-based Phoenix Bean plans $1.7 million expansion (Phoenix Bean is a graduate of FamilyFarmed’s Good Food Business Accelerator), Chicago Tribune
• A Tale of Ten Acres – UNFI’s Agrarian Journey of Soil health, UNFI
• City Farm Chicago Aspires To Heal Marginalized Communities with Food, Garden Collage
• After 25 Years, Uncommon Ground Is Still Low-Key And Keeping It Local, DNAInfo
• Women farmers making their mark, Chicago Farm Report
• The Plant: Urban Farming, Warehouse-Style, Aquaponics (video)
• Fish Out of Water: How One Prairie Town Built an Alaskan Seafood Pipeline, Civil Eats

National Good Food Conversation

• G.M.O. Labeling Bill Clears First Hurdle in Senate, New York Times
• In L.A., Kids At Risk Of Diabetes Are Getting Prescriptions For Free Fruit, FastCoExist
• For This Veteran-Turned-Urban Farmer, It All Started With A Lemon Tree, Hobby Farms
• Food Crusader Battling Walmart Could Emerge Victorious — With Your Help, HuffPost

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