June 7 - 13, 2021

June 7 - 13, 2021 Vol. 29 No. 22

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We are replacing our usual calendar with virtual events and recommendations from StreetWise vendors, readers and staff to keep you entertained at home!

MLB deals with the effects of COVID-19.

Cover Story: Farmers Markets

Farmers Markets have always been known for offering fresh and ripe produce, grown nearby; and for innovative foods.

This year's StreetWise guide shows an enhanced emphasis on solving food insecurity and unhealthy eating.

The Playground This Page: Garfield Park Farmers Market Facebook.

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ARTS & (HOME) ENTERTAINMENT RECOMMENDATIONS Since being stuck inside, which shows have you been watching? Which movies? Have you read any good books lately? Any new music releases have you dancing in your living room? StreetWise vendors, readers and staff are sharing what is occupying their attention during this unprecedented time.

To be featured in a future edition, send your recommendations of what to do at home and why you love them to Creative Director / Publisher Dave Hamilton at dhamilton@streetwise.org

Art Outdoors!

‘Behold, Be Held’ "Behold, Be Held" uses the facades of The Block Museum (40 Arts Circle Drive), the neighboring Ethel M. Barber Theater, and the building of our community partner Youth & Opportunity United (Y.O.U.) as an outdoor gallery.

Reproductions of artworks from the Block Museum collection invite visitors to reflect on how art holds us through moments of crisis. These works capture gestures that we may have taken for granted prior to the pandemic, that we have missed dearly. The selection of works was guided by themes of self-care, self-authorship, and community. It also explores how subtle moments with others prepare and carry us on our journeys. Within these works, people hold each other through life changes, create spaces of sustenance, and raise their hands to declare “I am still here.” “Behold, Be Held” is a meditation and a prompt, asking: W hat are you most in need of right now? On display through August 22. FREE. .

M C A Event Returns!

(HOME) ENTERTAINMENT

Tuesdays on the Terrace: Thaddeus Tukes and the Chicago Freedom Ensemble Summer Tuesdays come alive on the MCA’s Anne and John Kern Terrace Garden with free music highlighting artists from Chicago’s internationally renowned jazz community. Enjoy two sets of live music beginning at 5:30 p.m. hosted by Al Carter-Bey, WDCB 90.9 FM and Richton Guy Thomas, WHPK 88.5 FM, in a safe, sociallydistant outdoor environment. Free tickets must be reserved in advance. In case of inclement weather, the event will be canceled. Announcements will be made by 2 p.m. each week. Food and beverage are available for purchase on the upper terrace. Options on Tuesdays include light refreshments and a full bar with cold beverages, wine, and cocktails. Outside alcoholic beverages are prohibited. Masks are required for entry and must be worn at all times, except while seated. On June 8, enjoy music from Thaddeus Tukes and the Chicago Freedom Ensemble.

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Innovative Performance!

Paramodernities, night #1 Paramodernities offers an utterly unique hybrid of academic conference, dance performance, and town hall gathering, presented by the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. The series weaves theory and performance into a brain-tickling journey. With equal parts reverence and violence, choreographer Netta Yerushalmy and a cast of 20 dancers and scholars, ranging in age from 21 to 69, perform responses to iconic works from artists ranging from Bob Fosse to Alvin Ailey. Paramodernities was named as one of the “20 Top Works of the Last 20 Years” by Dance Magazine. Thursday, June 10, 8:30 - 9:30 p.m., Austin Town Hall Park, 5610 W. Lake St. FREE, no reservations required.

Wear a mask and bring your own blanket!

Green Thumbs!

Get Growing! Expo Get Growing! Expo offers educational workshops and interactive gardening exhibits and plant shopping. The Get Growing Foundation offers its second Get Growing! Expo presented by Wintrust Bank at Stone Temple Baptist Church, 3607 W. Douglas Blvd., 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. daily Friday, June 11 – Sunday, June 13. Designed to attract a blossoming gardening audience as well as seasoned gardeners, the nonprofit organization’s events feature free educational classes and make-n-take workshops rotating on the hour, 10 inspirational and themed garden vignette displays and Plant Truck Chicago, a mobile plant boutique raising funds for the foundation through the on-site sale of plants. FREE.

New Choreography!

The Music of Black Voices Six choreographers join forces with Ballet Chicago Studio Company dancers and the superb young musicians of Merit School of Music - a longtime Harris Theater education partner - to reflect on the arc of history and contributions of Black composers and musicians. These six brief ballets should be viewed not only as works of their time, but also as works of dance relevant beyond today. Available for streaming starting at June 8 at 2 p.m. at harristheaterchicago.org

Keep Dancing!

Wave Wall Wax at Navy Pier Jam out to free outdoor DJ performances every Saturday afternoon this summer. This live DJ music summer series will take place every Saturday afternoon at 5 - 7 p.m. at the Wave Wall Performance Platform through Labor Day weekend. The program features Chicago’s top DJs in house and dance music, including Selah Say on June 12. FREE.

Musical Theater!

'The New Classics: Songs from the New Golden Age of Musical Theater' Lyric Opera of Chicago announces "The New Classics: Songs from the New Golden Age of Musical Theater," a virtual cabaret starring Broadway’s Gavin Creel (pictured), Nikki Renée Daniels, and Norm Lewis, plus Amanda Castro, Jenn Gambatese, Jo Lampert, and Heath Saunders, with David Chase as music director and featuring members of the Lyric Opera Orchestra. This cabaret will premiere on Thursday, June 10 at 7 p.m. for FREE to audiences on Lyric’s Facebook and YouTube channels.

Lunch & Learn!

Lunch and Learn: Mandela and Anne Frank Hear a special presentation by Marlene Bethlehem, the first woman to be elected as national chairperson of the South African Board of Deputies. Bethlehem served as chair of the Anne Frank in the World Exhibition and traveled with Nelson Mandela to Israel on his visit to Yad Vashem. Bethlehem will be in conversation with her daughter-in-law, Emilia Potenza, curator of exhibitions & education, Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg South Africa. June 10, noon, FREE. Register at ilholocaustmuseum.org

In-Person Dance Performance!

Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre Performance Cerqua Rivera Dance Theatre is a multicultural company that creates new dance and music to explore strong personal narratives. The show is appropriate for all ages and will be about 75 minutes long. The audience will experience some of the new 2020-2021 work that is a reflection and response to the pandemic and racial injustice movement. This is an in-person event at 7:30 p.m. June 12 at Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St. For tickets and more information, visit beverlyartcenter.org

Pride Special Event!

‘Breaking Fast’ Conversation Mo is a heartbroken, practicing Muslim doctor in West Hollywood when he meets tall, all-American Kal – who offers to break fast and eat with him during Ramadan. Join Silk Road Rising Co-founder and Co-Executive Artistic Director Jamil Khoury in a conversation with the rom-com’s writer/director Mike Mosallam, along with cast members and film snippets. Mosallam is a queer Arab-Muslin filmmaker based in California. June 12, 2 p.m. RSVP required for Zoom link at silkroadrising.org.

-Compiled by Dave Hamilton

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Vendors Russ Adams, John Hagan and Donald Morris chat with Executive Assistant Patrick Edwards.

SPORTSWISE

Donald: Welcome to this week’s edition of SportsWise!

Glad to be here with the crew, and glad to see baseball up and running. So, while major league baseball (MLB) is in full swing—and, I might add, is still exciting—they are still dealing with the effects of COVID-19. Fellas, let’s talk about it. Russ, you want to kick it off?

we’ve got to get back to this game–and others–we, Americans, love. I’m happy.

Russ: I would. Thanks, Don. First off, I want to say I have never been happier than I am watching major league baseball again. We knew we were missing it in its fullness, but didn’t truly realize how good it feels to be dang near there.

The White Sox are doing really well, the Cubs are doing well—and only going to get better—and all of major league baseball is in high gear.

And with COVID-19 restrictions relaxing, we’re opening up and the fans are back in play, so we’re looking toward normalcy, where all factors would seem to be on-point in this comeback season with sunny days and a full, daily, slate of games, but we are still dealing with COVID-19.

Patrick: I’m almost with you, John. My only concern is that we don’t move too fast in reembracing our “normal” life prior to this pandemic. I feel we are doing nearly all the right things in regaining our footing with the restrictions.

However, we’re still dealing with the players being afflicted with the illness—and not just a few. The Yankees are the latest and biggest story in regard to COVID-19 breakdowns. On their staff alone, 7 COVID-19 cases have affected the team, holding them— and us—back from fully going forward in bliss.

John: We are. But, that said, I’m all for fan-attended MLB games. I’ve said it all along,

John: Exactly. It’s about progress, which I believe is what it’s all about. If we stay

Russ: That’s a high number for one team. Especially because it seems we’re ready.

cowering from it, we’ll never get to where we need to go.

We need to battle, keep our heads up, and get back into it.

There will be sacrifices, unfortunately, but where there is sacrifice, there is someone collecting sacrificial offerings.

Just something I’ve recently read. Meaning, there is gain when there are setbacks. We bounce back from these setbacks with understanding what to do—as well as what not to do—leading to a learning experience.

Patrick: Well said, John. I mentioned to Russ the other day I’d recently attended a Cubs game, and it was awesome (Thank you, Steph).

There were many good things I witnessed at the game that did give me hope.

The fans were spread out, with one section full of fans who’d been double-vaccinated, which’ll motivate others to get vaccinated as well.

Now, while there were many

without masks, there were some wearing masks, which is a good thing. Progress goes both ways, so those wearing masks eases the possible dropback of all not wearing masks.

So, perhaps, we will be good.

John: I’m ready.

Russ: I’m with you.

Donald: The Boys of Summer dealing with a bit of rain, but we’re okay. Although teams such as the Yankees are going through it, the numbers are dwindling. We can’t expect a complete turnaround this soon. Besides, the players coming down with COVID-19 have been vaccinated and are asymptomatic, so not as dire as it could be.

Patrick: A Don Henley reference. Don, you found my sweet spot: Count me in.

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a fresh guide to

Market Listings Legend:

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SUNDAYS 95th Street Farmers Market

1835 W. 95th St. through October 31, 8 a.m.–1 p.m.

95thstreetba.org/farmers-market

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by Suzanne Hanney

Bronzeville City Market 4700 S. King Drive. July 11–September 26, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

C&L&M Glenwood Sunday Market

1233-41 W. Pratt St., through October 24, (closed Sunday, July 4) 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

Sponsored by the Rogers Park Business Alliance, Glenwood Sunday Market will collaborate with the Loyola University Chicago School of Environmental Sustainability, which will allow Loyola’s urban agriculture program to join the market while the Loyola Farmers’ Market is on hiatus. New participants this year are Blacksmith Acres Farm, Lesna Living Oil and Flour, Mike and Clare’s Farm, and Patyk Farm. Returning vendors include Bennisons, Finn’s Ranch, Hardin’s Family Farm, Katherine Anne Confections, Lyons Fruit Farm, pHlour Bakery, and many more. COVID protocols will mean that shoppers enter on Pratt Boulevard and move toward an alley exit.

The Market will continue to offer day-of shopping micro-grants to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) shoppers with LINK cards. Donations to this Food Access Program can be made https://tinyurl.com/GSMDonate. www.glenwoodsundaymarket.org

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Hyde Park Downtown Market

54th Street & Old Lake Park Avenue, behind the Hyde Park Bank Building June 13 – September 26, 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

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800 S. Desplaines St. 1st and 3rd Sundays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Sunday market dates to 19th Eastern European Jewish immigrants and still maintains its reputation as a place for great street food and flea market “finds.”

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North Park Community Market

Peterson School parking lot, 5510 N. Christiana Ave., 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

3rd Sundays: June 20, July 18, August 15, September 19, October 17. Sponsored by Hollywood North Park Community Association.

Pilsen Community Market 9 a.m.-3 p.m. 1821 S. Blue Island through October 31.

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4100 N. Long St. June 6, 20, July 18, August 1, 15, 29, Sept 5, 19 and Oct 3. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox Ave. north parking lot 2nd and 4th Sundays (June 13, 27, July 11, 25, August 8, 22, September 12, 26, Oct. 10, 24) 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

One entrance and one exit will facilitate COVID safety. Market will start season as a hybrid, with walk-up or pick-up pre-order through What’s Good and grab-and-go food available, but no prepared food or places to eat and socialize at the market.

Vegan Paradise Farmers Market

Logan Square Sunday Market

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3107 W. Logan Blvd. (on Logan Blvd. from Milwaukee Ave. to Whipple) through October 31, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Organized by the Logan Square Chamber of Commerce.

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The Plant, 1400 W. 46th St. Through October 31, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. www.insidetheplant.com

Wicker Park Farmers Market

1425 N. Damen Ave. Through October 31, 8 a.m-2 p.m. www.wickerparkbucktown.com/farmersmarket

roscoe Village Farmers Market

Jahn Elementary School, 3149 N. Wolcott June 13-October 17, 9:30-2 p.m.

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Jefferson Park Sunday Market

New Maxwell Street Market

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On an old playground at the school Emmett Till attended, YWCA Metropolitan Chicago is growing – and selling-- healthy vegetables for the Woodlawn community at less-than-grocery-store prices.

The YWCA has a nearby office and a partnership with the elementary school at 6543 S. Champlain Ave., which was renamed for Till after he was horrifically killed in Mississippi at age 14 in 1955.

When the YWCA received U.S. Department of Agriculture funds to create farms, the school agreed that the mini-farm collaboration would be a good one, given the proximity to the YWCA office and what they wanted to see for the community they serve, said Latecia Patton, YWCA director of economic sustainability and strategic partnerships, which falls under the YWCA’s Economic Empowerment Institute.

When the farm started three years ago, Woodlawn was a food desert, so its crops were welcome. At the beginning and end of the growing season, when the weather is cooler, there are collard greens, chard, herbs, kale and spinach. At its warmest in July, there are tomatoes, bell peppers, hot peppers, okra, squash and cucumbers, said Natasha Coleman, farm manager.

Coleman’s family came from Louisiana when they were teenagers.

“For me it brings a little bit of home back to where your new home is.” Coleman started growing houseplants inside with her mother and then began farming in high school through the Chicago Botanic Youth Program. Coleman graduated from the Botanic Garden’s apprenticeship program in horticulture and agriculture and since 2020 has been building up a church farm in Roseland on two city lots.

Patton’s family came from Jamaica, but always had a backyard garden, which exposed her to vegetables as a youngster. She went to the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences and then to the University of Minnesota on an agriculture scholarship.

She changed her major to business management and later received a master’s degree in non-profit management. “It’s funny how life takes you back full circle,” she said.

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“The community has come out, teachers, parents,” Patton said.

“When we’re open, [11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Wednesdays] we've seen tremendous response, just to experience the farm. We’ve had people come out to volunteer. They love seeing it there and the beautification it adds to the community.

Sometimes you go to a grocery store and you don’t know how long it’s been sitting there.

Coming to the farm site, you know you’re getting fresh, healthy produce.”

Using organic compost over a concrete slab on the former playground, the YWCA can control the cultivation environment, Patton said. Growing food in the neighborhood – literally farm to table – cuts transport costs, Coleman said.

“We sell our food and if people cannot afford it, we give it to them,” Patton said.

Urban agriculture has both emotional and practical importance.

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Practically speaking, urban agriculture brings fresh produce to underserved neighborhoods that have not had these foods. “There are so many health issues that are connected to a lack of nutrition. Some of the easy, accessible food that you find in these communities contributes to a lot of the disease such as high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes.”

By educating children early about healthier foods, encouraging people to volunteer in the garden or to grow foods at home, “I believe we will see a reduction in some of these health disparities in the community,” Patton said.

There is also an economic benefit. “It’s not that expensive to get some soil, get some seeds, start growing, to have some produce you can sell.”

Mini-startups will be facilitated this summer by a new greenhouse, since the YWCA was awarded a Neighborhood Enhancement Grant by the South East Chicago Commission. The greenhouse will enable the farm to produce seedling plants the YWCA can give away.

Also new this summer will be a partnership with Greater Bronzeville Neighborhood Network and One Summer Chicago, a City of Chicago program that will employ five teens. The youth will learn food safety skills and assist on the farm. They will go out and talk to the community and will sell produce at the market. Urban agriculture will tie a variety of real world skills together for them.

StreetWise VeNdor A. Allen: Take Better Care of YouRself “Out of sight, out of mind.” “What you see is what you get.”

These are old sayings that I’ve found to be very true.

Back in 2017, StreetWise ventured out in selling fruit and vegetables from a cart, similar to farmers’ markets, but mobile. Vendors made extra money working them. We also sold StreetWise magazines, peanuts, flowers and cold water.

The reason I found “out of sight, out of mind” applicable is that when people saw the fruit and veggies they would suddenly stop and say, “Oh, yeah, I need some grapes, strawberries, carrots, celery” – whatever caught their attention. We made it our business to have the freshest produce. We even sprayed it with water to make it appear to be refreshing.

The farmers’ market does the same thing: it brings the freshness out in the open. You can get the food right now. You can eat better and take better care of yourself immediately. Not only is it good for the community, it is a reminder: “out of sight, out of mind;” and “what you see is what you get.”

MONDAYS Edgewater

TUESDAYS Fresh Moves Bus—Urban

Broadway Armory parking lot, 5917 N. Broadway.

June 7-28, 3-7 p.m. A new day and time for this market, to create less overlap with other markets and to entice both beachgoers and people on their way home from work, according to the Edgewater Chamber of Commerce. The new market will offer meats, fruits & vegetables, fresh pastries, and prepared foods and will showcase 16 local vendors, including Urban Canopy, Parra Farms, Cake Ecstasy and Blaque Millennium Farms.

Claretian Associates, 3201 E. 91st St. 10-11:30 a.m.

Howard Brown Rotating COVID Unit Noon-1 p.m.

Academy for Global Citizenship, 4941 W. 46th St. 1:30-3:30 p.m.

Monday Market

Fresh Moves Bus

This “mobile farmers’ market” is sponsored by Urban Growers Collective (UGC), whose goal is to use urban agriculture to break systemic patterns by increasing food security and incubating urban farmers. During the growing season, 70 percent of its produce – kale, spinach, beets, tomatoes, collards and more – comes from its eight farms. In winter, it is purchased from wholesalers. Value-added products come from BIPOC producers: chow chow by Sistas in the Village and goat milk soap by EINNIM. Last November, UGC, founded

by Erika Allen and Laurell Sims, introduced $10 vouchers that have resulted in 1.5 million pounds of food delivered to vulnerable, disinvested communities during the pandemic.

Link Match up to $25. The Fresh Moves Bus makes 15 weekday stops to schools, health clinics and other places people routinely frequent. Monday stops: Trina Davila, 4300 W. North Ave. 10 -11:30 a.m.

North Kostner Health, 1520 N. Kostner Ave. Noon-1:30 p.m.

Stone Temple Baptist Church, 3622 W. Douglas Blvd. 2-4 p.m.

Growers Collective

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Gary Comer Youth Center

7256 S. South Chicago Ave., 3-6 p.m.

June 18-October 29.

Seasonally picked flowers, herbs and produce grown

by Gary Comer students at market across the street from the youth center. As the season progresses, expect beans, salad mix, cooking greens, tomatoes, peppers, turnips, summer squash, herbs and more.

Double value for Link and IDHS senior/WIC coupons.

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North Lincoln @ West Leland Ave. (CTA Brown Line) through November 23, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

Sponsored by the Lincoln Square/Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce.

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SOAr Farmers Market

Museum of Contemporary Art Plaza, 220 E. Chicago Ave. June 1 through October, 7 a.m.-2 p.m.

Vendors include Bennison’s Bakery, Breadman Bakery, Ellis Family Farm, Finn’s Ranch, Gayle’s Best Grilled Cheese, Gotta Bee Crepes, Karl’s Kraft Soup, Stamper Cheese and more. New this year are Back of the Yards Coffee and Oosterhoff & Son Flowers. Ready-toeat lunch options include Gayle's Grilled Cheese and Gotta Bee Crepes.

Sponsored by the Streeterville Organization of Active Residents (SOAR).

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WEDNESDAYS Andersonville Farmers Market

1500 W. Catalpa (between Clark & Ashland) through October 20, 3-7 p.m.

Hybrid market will offer on-site shopping and preorder online market with pickup Wednesday from the vendors. Entry at 3-3:30 p.m. is reserved for those over 60 or at increased risk of COVID. North entrance on Catalpa will be for on-site shoppers, south entrance for pre-order pickups.

Link shoppers can email market@andersonville.org to register and use their SNAP benefits to pre-order online. Vendors will also accept Link tokens for on-site purchase.

Sponsored by the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce.

(2:30–3 p.m. reserved for seniors and the immunocompromised). uptownfarmersmarket.org

Fresh Moves BusUrban Growers Collective

11100 S. Cottage Grove Ave. July 7-October 27, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

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Howard Brown Health, 641 W. 63rd St. 10 -11:30 a.m.

Dulles Elementary School, 6311 S. Calumet Ave., Noon-1:30 p.m.

King Center, 4314 S. Cottage Grove Ave., 2-4 p.m.

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Green City Market -Lincoln Park

Inspired by European markets, Abby Mandel started Green City Market in 1998 in the crosswalk outside the Chicago Theatre.

Showcasing conscientious and caring farmers, chefs, restaurateurs, the market uses its voice nationally to advocate for the survival of small family farmers who grow clean, healthy food. www.greencitymarket.org 7 a.m.-1 p.m. through October 27. 1817 N. Clark St. (south end of Lincoln Park, between Clark Street and Stockton Drive). The market resumes indoors NovemberApril in the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

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Uptown Farmers Market

4620 N. Broadway. Through November 24, 2:30-7 p.m.

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Garfield ridge Farmers Market

Mayfield Banquet parking lot, 6072 S. Archer Ave. through Sept. 29, 3-7 p.m. garfieldridgecc.com

Highwood Evening Gourmet Market

July 7-September 22, 4:30-9:30 p.m. Downtown event offers fresh delicacies from local restaurants, food trucks, artisan breads, sauces, cheeses, pastas, sweets and more. www. celebratehighwood.org

Pullman City Market C&L&M

ravenswood Farmers Market

Ravenswood Evangelical Covenant Church, 4900 N. Damen Ave. (parking lot) June 16-October 13, 4-7 p.m.

ridgeville Market

Ridgeville Park, Ridge Avenue & South Boulevard, Evanston (908 Seward) June 23- August 25, 4-7:30 p.m. South Evanston market offers fresh produce and homemade baked goods.

roseland City Market

200 W. 109th St. (Lavizzo School) August 25-October 13, 2:30-5:30 p.m.

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Star Farm / Back of the Yards Farmers Market

5256 S. Ashland Ave. through October 13, 3-7pm

YWCA Farmers Market

6543 S. Champlain Ave. 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

The West Town Health Market sponsored by AMITA Health Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, 2233 W. Division St., is literally about nourishing the body.

People who use their SNAP benefits automatically get $15 worth of produce every week and can triple it on purchases up to $15 for an additional $45 value.

Food insecurity is such that the market served more people in 2020 than it did in 2019. This year, the market runs noon to 6 p.m. Thursdays through October 28.

Sts. Mary and Elizabeth serves six ZIP codes, including West Humboldt Park, said Celia Gonzalez, program manager. Although the Wicker Park neighborhood surrounding the hospital at Oakley and Division streets is gentrified, the population to the west is low-income, with many Hispanic and elderly, so you will find many culturally-relevant foods.

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Gregorio Bahena’s Healthy Snacks is a family-owned company that sells a variety of nuts, snacks and dehydrated fruits. Oscar Villa’s Bee-utiful Honey & Candles started in 2013, but his interest in farming dates to his childhood in Bolivia. The Puerto Rican Cultural Center sells root vegetables, sweet and green plantains, as well as sofrito, a garlic/onion/ peppers/cilantro and culantro that is a base for so many of their dishes.

And Mr. Kite’s the Chocolate Shop, a neighbor of the medical center, brings fruits, vegetables and his famous chocolate treats.

Produce comes from The Urban Canopy and Willow Ridge Organic Farm, whose owner, Renee Randall, “Farmer Renee,” travels to the market from Wauzeka, WI, more than 200 miles from Chicago.

Randall picks her tomatoes a day or two before travel. “Bringing really fresh produce makes a definite difference. Produce that's fresh and ripe is bringing both taste and health to the Heallth Market,” she said.

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Farmer Renee has been organic farming since 1974, when she and her three children moved from Chicago to southwestern Wisconsin.

She follows the belief of Adelle Davis that food cannot be healthy if the soil is depleted of nutrients. She creates “earth juices” from comfrey and stinging nettle that she composts over the winter and feeds at planting, along with solutions she can mist on the leaves. Between June and October, she grows green, yellow and purple beans; beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbages, cantaloupe, sweet corn, lettuce and more.

Willow Ridge is located in the Wisconsin Driftless, a pristine and rolling country of bluffs and valleys near the junction of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. At Wauzeka, the Kickapoo River flows into the Wisconsin River, which joins the Mississippi downriver at Prairie du Chien. “Together we can protect this beautiful landscape from factory farming, frac sand mining and development and by supporting the ‘right kind of farming,’ do our part towards the changing conditions in the health of the planet and climate change,” she says on her website.

The “right kind of farming,” Randall says, involves stewardship of the land, which means putting down personal roots, too. There used to be about 24 small dairy farms in her area, each with 16 to 60 cows. The farmers lived on their land and took care of it; their money went back into the community.

“What’s happened is that farmers were broken in the ’80s, we lost thousands of generational farmers,” she said. Moneyed interests consolidated the land, and “used the farms as investments to grow soybeans and corn. They don’t live here so they don’t really care about it.”

THUrSDAYS Austin Town Hall City Market

5610 W. Lake St. through September 30, 1-6 p.m.

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Lincoln Square

Daley Plaza City Market

50 W. Washington St. through September 30, 7 a.m.-2 p.m.

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St. Katharine Drexel Church, 9015 S. Harper Ave., 10-11:30 a.m.

Komed Holman Health Center, 4259 S. Berkeley Ave., Noon-1:30 p.m.

Boxville, 332 E. 51st St., 2-4 p.m.

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Growing Home

SNAP and Senior Coupons accepted.

Also represented at Green City Market on Saturdays.

1844 W. 59th St., noon-6 p.m. New entrance around the corner at Growing Home’s Wood Street Farm, which set the precedent for Chicago’s City Council urban agriculture ordinance. On less than an acre in Englewood, Growing Home runs USDAcertified organic high production urban farms as well as a farm-based training program for people with employment barriers. Production Assistants receive 25 hours a week of paid job experience, job readiness training, and support to navigate criminal records, medical needs, childcare and housing.

The farms grow over 200 vegetables: baby salad mix, arugula, collard and mustard greens, heirloom and early slicer tomatoes, and more. WIC,

North Lincoln @ West Leland Avenue, (CTA Brown Line) 3-7 p.m.

Through October 28. Sponsored by the Lincoln Square/ Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce, 773.728.3890

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CTA Brown Line/ Southport Station through October 28, 3:30-7:30 p.m. (3-7 p.m. in September and October).

The Low Line connects Southport and Paulina in a continuous, half-mile walkway and garden underneath the “L” tracks. Sponsored by the Lakeview Roscoe Chamber of Commerce.

L PCC Austin Farm Stand

330 N. Lotus Ave. through October 28, 10 a.m.–noon

L&M South Loop Prairie District Farmers Market

1936 S. Michigan Ave. (2nd Presbyterian Church) June 17–September 30, 4–8 p.m.

West Town Health Market

AMITA Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Health Center, Oakley & Division streets through October 28, Noon-6 p.m.

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Englewood Village Farmers Market (managed by Grow Greater Englewood)

5800 S. Halsted St., July 9 –October 15, 4–7 p.m. www.growgreater.org

L Fresh Moves Bus-Urban Growers Collective Chicago Family Health, 9199 S. Exchange Ave., 10 a.m.-noon Heartland Alliance, 5501 S. Halsted St., 12:30-2 p.m.

Howard Brown Health, 1525 E. 55th St., 2:30-4 p.m.

L&M Gary Comer Youth Center

7256 S. South Chicago Ave., 3-6 p.m.

June 18-October 29.

Seasonally picked flowers, herbs and produce grown

by Gary Comer students at market across the street from the youth center. As the season progresses, expect beans, salad mix, cooking greens, tomatoes, peppers, turnips, summer squash, herbs and more.

Double value for link and IDHS senior/WIC coupons.

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“We put the local in local,” says Garfield Park Neighborhood Market Manager Angela Taylor. “All of our produce is actually grown here in the community, picked the day before. Most of the entrepreneurs that participate are local.”

The Garfield Park Neighborhood Market is open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. the second and fourth Saturdays of the month from June through October on the plaza of The Hatchery Chicago, right off the CTA Green Line at 135 N. Kedzie Ave. Along with the Market, the Garfield Park Garden Network has been a centerpiece of local wellness efforts since 2010. The 32-member association of local gardens maintains roughly three acres of vacant lots in the community. Managed by a resident committee that meets monthly, the network seeks to increase the availability of fresh produce in a food desert, to support service learning for local teens and to beautify previously blighted areas of the neighborhood.

The garden network has a greenhouse for year-round plantings and starting seedlings. By the end of this year, it will also have an orchard, to produce fruit suited to the Chicago climate.

“Yes, we are actually supplying food to the food-insecure,” Taylor said. “We’re hoping to lift up the benefit of shopping at the farmers market with the Link card.” On qualified products like honey, pickles, jams and jellies, they can receive Link bucks for produce: carrots, tomatoes, bell peppers and peas.

The Garfield Park Farmers Market was on this site before construction of The Hatchery Chicago, but the new nonprofit food and beverage business incubator made Taylor feel they should take the market up a notch. Members of the Hatchery have added products like hypoallergenic bath and body products, traditional African snacks, barbeque sauces and herb-infused salts.

Taylor also started to identify entrepreneurs who could cook, for value-added products. Alabamaborn Everlean Mansfield, 85, is the matriarch. She makes apple butter, peach and pear preserves that she sources from another farmers market.

Other Great Migration legacy members of the Garfield Park Garden Network bring “cultural peas” that they actually grew and ate in the South: crowder, purple hull, whippoorwill, lady peas. Cooking Light.com called the latter a “rare find at farmers markets” because of their short growing season,

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exclusive to the South. Full of fiber, protein and antioxidants, lady peas have a creamy texture and sweet taste. There are also mustard greens, slick leaf mustard greens and kale.

Like Mansfield’s Kitchen, Ms. Gina’s Medley is another legacy vendor of pickled okra and turnips, baked zucchini bread bites, banana bread and butter cookies. Her grandfather came up in the Great Migration and housed the family in a large mansion. Even though Ms. Gina lived in Oak Park, she still owned the property and wanted to become a community gardener on it.

Taylor’s own garden will have garlic, purple and white cabbage; collard, mustard and turnip greens; bell peppers and hot peppers: poblano and Scotch bonnets; watermelon and cantaloupe. There’s a big patch of strawberries that somebody had to move; Taylor and her husband had just purchased a whole city lot for $1.

“Lots of gardeners feel gardens are part of the family.

They feed it and weed it so it can produce food you can eat.”

There’s plenty for shoppers from outside the neighborhood, Taylor says.

“It’s not taking food away.

That’s the way we support our garden network. We have to do this project every year: make compost, raised beds.

The City does not provide it.

The way to make it sustainable is to sell our produce in our community so anyone can buy it so we can start this process all over again. But after July, you’d better come early, because the seniors will have their coupons and will wait for me to get there. They want their peas, greens, okra.”

SATURDAYS

Division Street City Market

100 W. Division St. Through October 30, 7 a.m.-noon

C&L &M Englewood City Market

1219 W. 76th St., at the Martin Luther King Jr. Roller Skating and Bowling Center, July 17-September 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

C&L&M Evanston Farmers Market

Oak Avenue & University Place, Evanston (just east of East Railroad Avenue; free parking in adjacent 1800 Maple Ave. Self Parking). Through November 6, 7:30-1 p.m. Seniors and people who are disabled can shop each week at 7 a.m.

Among the roughly 60 vendors are Bennison’s Bakery, Bhoomi Chai, Misericordia Hearts & Flour Bakery, and many more. Last year, Friends of Evanston Farmers Markets, a 501 (c) (3) that educates the public about the benefits of eating fresh, locally-grown foods, started a campaign, “Just 25+” to seek donations from a broader number of people in order to spread Link Match benefit and fight food insecurity. evanstonfarmersmarkets.org

L&M Garfield Park Neighborhood Market

135 N. Kedzie at The Hatchery. 2nd and 4th Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June through October. Food sold at this market is grown in the neighborhood. Masks required and one-way traffic, to allow social distancing.

L &M Green City Market-Lincoln Park

1817 N. Clark St. (south of Lincoln Park, between Clark Street and Stockton Drive) through October 30, 7 a.m.-1 p.m. November-April inside the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum. www.greencitymarket.org

L Green City Market West Loop

Mary Bartelme Park, 115 S. Sangamon St. June 5–October 30, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

L horNer park farmers market

2741 W. Montrose, June 5-Oct. 2, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Run by the Horner Park Advisory Council, the market is a community-building tool and place for public interaction, so the Market makes at least one market stall available to community groups, neighborhood non-profits, political organizations, arts organizations, educational groups. It is also an economic engine for the neighborhood, so at least one stall per market is rented out to local non-food businesses. More information on renting a stall or volunteering can be obtained at 708.658.HPFM (4736) or farmersmarket@hornerpark.org

Hyde park - experimeNtal station

6100 S. Blackstone, through October 30, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Straddling Hyde Park and Woodlawn, this premier South Side Market offers produce, meat, eggs, cheeses and prepared foods from local and regional farms. If COVID conditions allow, the market will move indoors at the Experimental Station on November 6, 13, 20, December 4, 11, 18 and Jan. 8, Feb. 12, March 12 and April 9, 2022.

L&M Lincoln Park Farmers Market

2001 N. Orchard St. through November 20, 7 a.m.-1 p.m.

nettelhorst French Market

3252 N. Broadway, through October 30, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. www.bensidounusa.com/nettlehorst/

Northcenter Farmers Market

Northcenter Town Square, 4100 N. Damen Ave. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. through October 30, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

To facilitate one-way traffic, enter the market on Damen Avenue and exit on Lincoln. The market will be limited to 76 people at a time, including staff and vendors, so a maximum of 2 per household. No dogs, except for service animals.

Oak Park Farmers Market

46th season will be at Pilgrim Church parking lot, 460 Lake St., one block west of Ridgeland Avenue. 7 a.m.-1 p.m. through October. COVID protocol includes a limited number of patrons at a time and one-way traffic.

Plant Chicago Farmers Market

Davis Square Park, 4430 S. Marshfield, through November 13, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. plantchicago.org/farmers-market/

L&M West Humboldt Park City Market

3601 W. Chicago Ave. through October 5, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. In partnership with NHS Chicago

C&L&M Mercado de Colores

Manuel Perez Memorial Plaza, 4345 W. 26th St. through September 25, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. www.mercadodecoloreslavillita.org

Mother McCauley MAC Market

3737 W. 99th St. June 12, 26 / July 10, 24 / August 14, 28 / September 11, 25, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.

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The Oak Park Farmers Market is a locally-grown, producer-only marketplace, whose participants come from as near as Winfield and as far as Mineral Point, WI, just over three hours away.

of a Finnish juustoleipa, also called “juusto” or “squeaky cheese” for the sound it makes against your teeth. Their raclette is Swiss cheese made specifically to melt, as in fondue.

The 46th season has begun for the market, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday through October at the parking lot of Pilgrim Church, 460 Lake St., one block west of Ridgeland Avenue. The market’s mission is not only to enhance the sense of community and quality of life, but to offer tasty and nutritious food – to lower income residents as well.

Cheesemakers Joe and Jody Klinedinst of J2K Capraio, Walkerton, IN, raise their own goats and purchase cows’ milk for cheeses they age in an underground cave – the first in Indiana. Aging underground lets the cheese ripen at the Earth’s temperature – 52 to 55 degrees F – a more humid atmosphere that facilitates a natural rind on the cheese, whether Gorgonzola, Italian-style farmhouse, or Spanish-style Manchego.

Matt and Mary of Chanticlare Farms moved in December from Aurora to six acres near Winfield. Their original farm started in 2016 but they say on their website that they have worked toward sustainable agriculture all their lives. Produce (they grow 30 different types of vegetables and annual fruits), herbs and cut flowers are their offerings at the market.

Mary grew up on a small dairy farm in rural County Clare, Ireland.

Matt’s family cultivated a large garden every summer during his youth and he worked for a summer at the Oak Park Conservatory, where he learned plant nursery work. After they were married in 2007, he trellised cherry tomatoes 20 feet up the side of their house and into Mary’s pantry. Meanwhile, she was known for growing native prairie flowers.

Matt and Mary have backgrounds in teaching, so their farm is a continuation of education about fresh food, improving the soil, creating community as well as a local food economy less dependent on fossil fuels during the era of climate change. To them, the “good life” is farming with their two young sons, “a simple life that strips away all the distractions and focuses on the essential.”

Other purveyors include: American Pride Microfarm, Barry’s Berries, Breadman Baking Co., Brian Severson Farms, Ellis Family Farm, Finn’s Ranch, Geneva Lakes Produce, Green Fire Farm (bi-weekly) Hardin Farms, Herbally Yours, Johnson’s Apple World, K.V. Stover & Sons, Katic Breads, LaProvence, Nichols Farm, R. Smits & Sons, River Valley Ranch, Smits Organics, Three Bees, Walt Skibbe Farms.

Most of the vendors accept Link; some also accept WIC and senior coupons. All payment methods, including cash, are used at the market. Matching coupons up to $25 are available to SNAP (food stamp) shoppers at the live market.

COVID protocols mean that a limited number of patrons will be allowed at the same time. Pedestrians will enter on Lake Street and traffic will flow only one way, to allow social distancing. Free parking is available at the Oak Park River Forest High School parking garage on Scoville Avenue, just north of Lake Street.

OAK PARK FArMERS MArKET Located between Mineral Point and Darlington, WI, Brunkow Cheese’s Joe Burns is the third generation of his family to follow the profession. Since 1899, they have been making traditional cheddars and Old World European cheeses in southwestern Wisconsin. “Brun—uusto” is their variation

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Online shopping is available starting at 9 a.m. every Monday at w w w. s o u r c e w h a t s good.com with a $3 additional administration fee.

The market relies on volunteers to staff the information booth and help with special events. Shifts are two hours, no long-term commitment is required and training is on the job. For more information, email farmersmarket@oak-park.us

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