Now you can shop with a bag of local produce in one hand and a delicious burger in the other. more ›

After a long-anticipated release, more than 10 Chicago restaurants are serving the new local cider. more ›

Here's a holiday just for dairy lovers. National Cheese Ball Day gives you an excuse to throw an impromptu party and get handsy with your favorite locally sourced rennet. more ›

The all-local-food dinner service will have 20 spots each night on Fridays and Saturdays. more ›

The new sausage and charcuterie program from Chef Scott Walton, featuring local and sustainable meat, will rock your summer grilling. more ›

The Local Beet has released the 2012 CSA guide - and shares will start selling out soon. more ›

Log on to the forums and start nominating! more ›

We're not talking about Green City - we're talking about corporate buyers. In collaboration with the USDA, Chicago-based FamilyFarmed has created a program that helps small farmers break into big markets. more ›

If you haven't stopped by the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum this season to grab some local produce, head over this Saturday. more ›

The shop will open with a full lineup of breads and packaged goods - the meats come later. more ›

Once Friedman announced the book project on Twitter last week, we had to know more. more ›

The indoor winter market runs from January through April. Matthias Merges, Chef of newly-opened Yusho, will be running a demo. more ›

Logan Square Farmer's Market and the Glenwood Sunday Market are both setting up shop inside this weekend. more ›

Uncommon Ground holds the top two spots in the Green Restaurant Association's restaurant rankings. more ›

The organization has to move their apiary to new land and they need to raise the money by February. more ›

The new brew, "Eldergin," joins the star-studded pantheon of North Shore's limited release spirits. more ›

Most of them are already spoken for - but you have one last chance to get a great local turkey. more ›

Learn about Virtue Cider while eating Nicole Pederson's awesome food. more ›

Read Part I of our interview with Dmitry Samarov from last Friday more ›

We helped harvest a few weeks ago, and you can join in the fun tomorrow. If you like sweet potatoes (or urban gardening) you won't want to miss this. more ›

Farm Dinner season is coming to an end, and if you haven't had the chance to go to one yet, now is the time. Slagel Family Farm is hosting its last dinner of the season. We brought you a gallery of photos from Slagel a few weeks ago, and if those photos made you want to head back to the land, join Chef Nicole Pederson (of C-House) and chefs from One SixtyBlue this Saturday, October 8. more ›

In the last few months, farm dinners have been popping up everywhere. And, let's be honest, they are often quite expensive. Readers often ask us what exactly goes on at a farm dinner. Do you just, like, go to a farm and eat? We asked Slagel Family Farm, host of last month's Publican farm dinner, to share some moments from a typical farm dinner. Hopefully, these will start to answer your questions. more ›

We had such a good time (read: ate so much and drank so much) that we only vaguely remember the last third of our Sunday Dinner Club experience. Which is probably the best endorsement we can possibly give it. A few weeks ago, SDC threw a vegetarian installment of their popular underground supper club, and we finally decided to join them. The owners, Josh Kulp and Christine Cikowski, announced last week that they were going to open a really-for-real restaurant, but when we were in the kitchen there were only excited rumors. The rumors added energy to the already-frenetic kitchen space, making for a particularly fun and interesting night. more ›

Nice Cream owner Kris Swanberg said that she would fight the regulations, which essentially requires small-batch makers like Nice Cream to adopt preparation and production processes that "macro" ice cream producers use. more ›

"Every week, I find something I didn't realize was in season or I didn't realize was possible to grow here," explained Bruce Sherman, of North Pond Restaurant, as he picked over the produce on a recent Wednesday at Green City Market. Diners have gotten used to seeing producers and market names all over menus, and during the summer, Chicago restaurants are inundated with farm-to-table dishes. Sherman, and many other Chicago chefs, go a step further, and visit the market every week, talking to farmers (many of whom are now old friends) and picking up their orders themselves. We followed Chef Sherman through the market to learn how a chef shops for produce. more ›

Every time we go to a farmer's market, we're amazed by how much has changed from the week before. One of the best things about talking to farmers and buying local produce is that you get back in touch with the seasonality of food - when things are available and at their peak. Right now, the colors of the market are bursting into full bloom, as the market moves out of its green period and into the bright oranges, purples and reds of mid-summer. It's not quite peak harvest time yet, but if you haven't been to the market lately, go on Saturday. more ›

The Independent Spirits Expo, a gathering of American micro-distillers, importers and small, independent spirits brands, comes to town for the first time on Wednesday, September 28. For the past several years, organizer Dave Schmier has hosted installments of the Indy Spirits Expo in New York and San Francisco, drawing an average of 40 exhibitors. The debut event in Chicago, which will take place at the Bottom Lounge's Volcano Room, in the West Loop, has already attracted lots of craft producers, including local and regional distillers like Koval, Evanston's fledgling F.E.W. Spirits, Rehorst and North Shore Distillery. more ›

It's a fantasy dream for gardeners and localvores - if only our backyard looked like this. more ›

Last Minute Plan - Tonight at the Bristol, the Green City Market Junior Board is hosting a "Meet the Market" event. There is no admission price, pastries and sweets are free (courtesy of Amanda Rockman, the Bristol's pastry wizard) and cocktails will be $11. Created by mixologist Debbi Peek, with spirits donated by death door, the cocktails include a Blueberry Ginger Mule and a Raspberry and Rosemary Sour. For those who wish to learn while they drink, Paul Thelan from Hillside Orchards will be there to talk about farming, fruit and markets. The event runs from 6-9, and will be on the second floor. 2152 N. Damen Avenue. more ›

It promises to be the tastiest way you could spend your 4th of July. more ›