Weekly Link Roundup – August 19

Midwest Good Food

• Depending on the wilds to pollinate – (profile on Good Food Business Accelerator Alum), AgriView
• Innovation, Sustainability Key to Future of Farming in Illinois, WTTW
• Revival Food Hall To Open Thursday: Here’s Everything You Need To Know, DNAInfo
• Wheat Grown On Studio Gang’s Rooftop Ends Up In Cookies At Baker Miller, DNAInfo
• This Chicago Food Delivery Startup Has Thrived as Sprig and Others Struggle in Crowded Space, Chicago Inno
• 5 favorite farmers market finds and what to do with them, Chicago Tribune
• Workshop focus: agritourism opportunities, Chicago Farm Report

National Good Food Conversation

• These 5 Museums Put the “Culture” in “Agriculture”, Modern Farmer
• Old New Jersey steel mill will soon be world’s largest vertical farm, Chicago Tribune
• The farm upstairs – From Brooklyn to Chicago, high-tech agriculture and mother nature meet on urban rooftops, Curbed
• Is a reckoning at hand for big food companies?, Hartman Group
• You say “CSA,” I say “food hub” – Recent debates over food system ethos and terminology missed a key step: what do these terms even mean?, New Food Economy
• The food bank cooking school – Can a New Jersey food bank’s free culinary education program create a community of cooks who don’t need food banks?, New Food Economy
• Farmer of the Year Contest – Farmers’ Almanac and American Farm Bureau Federation host contest, Morning Ag Clips

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