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July 13 Event with Naturally Chicago Non-Profit Visits a Mission-Driven Market
OK, so we launched this beautiful new website, then we launched its Events Calendar. So what's the next logical step for Local Food Forum?
That's right, we're holding an event!
Join Local Food Forum and our friends at Naturally Chicago — the trade association for the region's Natural Products consumer packaged goods industry — for a tour of 61st St. Farmers Market on Saturday, July 13, beginning at 10:30 a.m.
What do Local Food Forum and Naturally Chicago have in common, besides a commitment to building a better, healthier and more sustainable food system? Well... me. Along with my Local Food Forum passion project, I am a communications consultant for Naturally Chicago.
The 61st Street Farmers Market is located at 6100 S. Blackstone Ave., at the north end of the Woodlawn community and adjacent to Hyde Park and University of Chicago. It is the biggest farmers market on Chicago's South Side, and also is one of the region's most mission-driven markets. It is operated by the Experimental Station non-profit, and Connie Spreen, executive director since 2007, will lead the tour.
Experimental Station also runs the Link Up Illinois program, which provides funding to farmers markets and other retail purveyors of healthy and sustainably produced foods to enable them to double the value of public food assistance benefits. Matthew Ruffi, who heads the program, will also share information on the tour. You will also get to meet Emily Cross, who manages the 61st Street Farmers Market.
And we'll have at least one special guest: Sebastian White, founder and head of the visionary non-profit The Evolved Network, which works with underprivileged youths to provide them with food education and skills through farm-to-table experiences.
The event is scheduled to run about an hour, but Naturally Chicago and Local Food Forum urge you to come early or linger to shop for beautiful peak season food and support our local farmers!
Some of the organizers will have lunch afterwards at Daisy's Po'Boy and Tavern on the north side of the U of C campus, a casual Cajun-focused restaurant by James Beard Award-winning Chef Erick Williams.
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