Weekly Link Roundup – August 26

Midwest Good Food

• To open first Chicago restaurant, Sweetgreen had to first find the farms, (FamilyFarmed connected Sweetgreen with Prairie Fruits Farm, plus GFBA alum are also providers) Chicago Tribune
  
• Farm-to-table hotspots for the whole family, Chicago Parent
• The chefs at Honey Butter Fried Chicken make chicken wings with ‘a pop of ant’, Chicago Reader
• Leaving Academia to Become a First-Generation Farmer, The Atlantic
• Growth comes fast for food-delivery aggregator Bootler, Crain’s
• Cooked acquires Chefmade amid Chicago’s food delivery market shakeup, Built In Chicago
• Lavizzo Elementary Hosts First Farmers Market In Roseland, DNAInfo
• Floriole Cafe And Bakery Embraces Its Roots For Sunday Supper Series, DNAInfo
• How Loyola Converts Used Cooking Oil Into Biodiesel That Fuels Their Buses, DNAInfo

National Good Food Conversation

• USDA Invests Millions Into Training for the Next Generation of Farmers, NSAC
• Digested: Can Small Food Brands Scale Up Without Selling Out?, Civil Eats
• Why I’m empowering 1,000’s of millennials to become #realfood entrepreneurs through Vertical Farming, Kimbal Musk
• Losing share, what’s in store for the future of America’s supermarket channel?, Hartman Group
• Rush Limbaugh warns that federally paid ‘lesbian farmers’ could invade your town, The Daily Dot
• The Wild and Native Foods We Should Be Eating, Civil Eats

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