How can we ensure the continued success of local farms in our foodshed? Direct-market business models such as farmers markets and community supported agriculture (CSA) have fueled much of the growth of the local food movement in the last two decades. However,...
The UA zoning ordinance was NOT on the Zoning committee meeting agenda on March 3, and we don’t yet have word when they plan to address it, but we keep asking. See More Info below. We’ll talk about all of this at the 6th Annual Chicago Food Policy Summit...
Location: Community Room at Garfield Conservatory at 5:30pm  (300 N Central Park Avenue) . This meeting in open to all and will continue to be a resource to further your own efforts in Urban Agriculture or to get connected and begin new efforts. The full agenda will...
If you have something to say about food issues in Chicago, you will have an opportunity to say them on the radio this Sunday afternoon, May 3. My radio program, “The Mike Nowak Show,” is being broadcast from the Third Unitarian Church in the Austin...