Weekly Link Roundup – November 11

Midwest Good Food

• Trial run tests train travel for Chicago-bound farm products, Illinois Farmer Today
• Chatham Entrepreneur Just Got ‘Tea Squares’ In 6th Whole Foods, DNAInfo
• How a Mexican American Farmer Is Making Organic Food More Accessible, Takepart
• Ten Questions with Harry Rhodes, Executive Director of Growing Home, Food Tank
• Indianapolis’ Urban Farms Help Tackle Urban Problems, Modern Farmer
• Goals for expanding urban agriculture, Morning Ag Clips
• Kassandra Hinrichsen, Education and Outreach Manager, Plant Chicago, The Gastrognomes
• 23 Women Chefs Who Reign Over Chicago Restaurants, Eater

National Good Food Conversation

• Food and Restaurant Industry Split About Donald Trump Presidency, Wall Street Journal
• Election 2016: Will Donald Trump deregulate the FDA?, Food Dive
• Election 2016 Results: Food-Related Ballots, Eater

• UPDATED: Soda Taxes Won Big, and Factory Farming Lost in Oklahoma, Mother Jones

• How chefs became the new policy wonks, New Food Economy
• 8 must-read stories on how transparency is changing the food industry, FoodDive
• Innovation encouraged as global sports nutrition sales to reach $44B by 2021, FoodDive
• USDA Grants $20.2 Million for Food and Forestry Research and Development Projects, USDA
• Arctic farming: Town turns to hydroponics for fresh greens, Chicago Tribune
• Beyond Farmers Markets: Cities, States Champion Locally Grown Food, HuffPost
• Digested: Do We Need Farmers to Eat?, Civil Eats
• The 2015 CSA Farming Annual Report, Small Farm Central

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