The best Good Food news we’ve read this week: Midwest Good Food Chefs offer their take on perfect picnic sandwiches for Labor Day, SunTimes Illinois death tax hits family farms where it hurts, Chicago Tribune Young farmers are freshening the face of Wisconsin agriculture, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel National Good Food Conversation Why Farm-to-Institution Sourcing Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – September 2[…]
The best Good Food news we’ve read this week: 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 Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – August 26[…]
The best Good Food news we’ve read this week: 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 Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – August 19[…]
The best Good Food news we’ve read this week: FamilyFarmed A Start-Up Turns to Saffron to Help Afghanistan Regrow, New York Times Midwest Good Food Goodbye, Orange Julius, hello, Furious Spoon (about the recent popularity of food halls), Crain’s They Might be Giant: Rob Levitt talks to Jason Vincent and Ben Lustbader, Fooditor This Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – August 12[…]
Urban agriculture is on the rise. So is the interest of many homeowners in growing their own food. Now Fleet Farming, a startup company with national intentions, wants to accelerate both trends — and it involves bicycles.
Here’s the best Good Food news we’ve read this week. Midwest Good Food Young urban farmers look to help people in need, WGN Ex-teacher goes into hydroponic farming, The Beacon News Veggie Bingo Raises Support for Chicago’s Community Gardens, CivilEats This Healthy Vending Machine Sells Salad for Up to 60% Less Than Fast Casual Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – July 29[…]
Here’s the best Good Food news we’ve read this week. Happy reading! Midwest Good Food The Publican Names New Executive Chef As Brand Faces Expansions, Chicago Eater O’Hare Upgrade: Publican Tavern Arriving July 26 At Airport, Chicago Eater Feast At the Farm: A Farmer, a Baker, a Brewer and a Chef, Forbes Bow Truss’ Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – July 15[…]
Urban agriculture in on the rise, in many cases providing jobs, opportunities and access to Good Food for residents of underserved communities. But the farm Jen Rosenthal manages on Chicago’s South Side has particular social significance: It is on a site once occupied by apartment towers of The Robert Taylor Homes, which had grown so troubled-plagued that its residents were relocated and the buildings torn down.
Here’s the best Good Food news we’ve read this week. Enjoy! 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 Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – July 8[…]
There are few people in the restaurant business who have kept farm to table real better — or longer — than Chicago’s Helen and Mike Cameron. They opened Uncommon Ground in 1991 and ever since have been blazing trails in providing diners with locally and sustainable produced food. Read about their ahead-of-the-curve experiences and their 25th anniversary events in the latest installment of our “Farm to Table: Keeping It Real” series.
Here’s the best Good Food news we’ve read this week. Enjoy! Midwest Good Food Thanks to MightyVine, You Can Have Local Tomatoes, 365 Days a Year, Modern Farmer Organic, healthy baby food, Crain’s Chicago Restaurant, Kankakee Farm, Fooditor The Chewing Podcast, Episode 10: GMO Yo or No, Soundcloud A Sustainable Farm Rises from the Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – June 24[…]
The Mayan Café presents traditional cuisine of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula that since 2007 has delighted diners (and reviewers) in the restaurant row in Louisville’s East Market District, a.k.a. NuLu. And they have done so in part by going all in on sourcing ingredients as locally as possible, a decision that made them a farm-to-table front-runner in Kentucky’s most populous city. Good Food on Every Table is pleased to present a q-and-a with Shadle and Ucan as our first out-of-Chicago article in our “Farm to Table: Keeping It Real” series.
Here’s the best Good Food news we’ve read this week. Enjoy! FamilyFarmed in the News Kitchen to Grocery Store: What Makes a Food Startup Work?, Wharton University Farming in Flux – Family farms are disappearing, even as restaurants look to source better ingredients. Can agriculture and foodservice help save each other?, QSR Magazine Midwest Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – June 10[…]
Sourcing locally is a commitment that is both rewarding and frustrating for a chef. But metro Chicago’s White Oak Gourmet
is committed, even if it means chasing chickens (okay, chicken delivery trucks) around the city. Read Chef Tom Leavitt’s reflections on building relationships with farmers in this contributed column.
We’ve started a new feature here at Good Food On Every Table- the Weekly Link Roundup! We’ll list the best Good Food news we’ve read this week. Enjoy! FamilyFarmed in the News Impact Entrepreneurship is Thriving in Chicago (Good Food Business Accelerator mentioned), Impact Engine Midwest Good Food Why Chicago Is Becoming The Country’s Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – June 3[…]
We’ve started a new feature here at Good Food On Every Table- the Weekly Link Roundup! We’ll list the best Good Food news we’ve read this week. Enjoy! FamilyFarmed in the News Bob Benenson of @FamilyFarmed interviewed on Business First AM, Business First AM Faces of the food and farming movement, Sustainable Food Read more about Weekly Link Roundup – May 27[…]
FamilyFarmed staff gathered on Tuesday to share good food and attempt to answer the question, “How can we help the Good Food community to be more diverse and inclusive?” This exercise, part of The Chicago Community Trust’s annual city-wide On The Table event, is the subject of this article.
Until recently, dried meat jerky was none something most people associated with Good Food. But one sign of the growing influence of the movement is that many products not normally seen as part of a well-balanced diet are being adapted into healthier and more sustainably produced versions — such as Think Jerky, the subject of this article.
Nature’s Farm Camp is an overnight camp, on a working farm, that immerses Chicago-area kids in a fantastic food-and-outdoor adventure. Tim Magner, in this contributed article, explains how in a world where kids are bombarded with hyper-processed foods loaded with fat, sugar and salt, Nature’s Farm Camp shows them something different — and better — in a beautiful natural environment that connects them with where food comes from.
When U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack delivered the keynote address at FamilyFarmed’s Good Food Festival & Conference March 24, he spoke three little words that are close to the hearts of the Chicago nonprofit organization and its community of like-minded advocates: Good Food movement.