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Chicago farmers' markets include approximately 30 open-air markets across neighborhoods with farmers from Illinois and surrounding states including Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. Most of the markets are sponsored by the city and are held on one day of the week, with the exception of a few of the more popular ones, such as the Green City Market .
The Green City Market is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization that operates a farmers market in Chicago focusing on local and sustainable farming practices. Green City Market is Chicago's only year-round, sustainable market. Green City Market was started in 1998 by chef, cookbook author, and Chicago Tribune columnist Abby Mandel.
As of August 22, 2018, Urban Growers Collective had served over 10,000 produce items to people living in the south and west sides of Chicago. [10] This also includes selling and providing fresh produce locally to events around Chicago such as the yearly Bridgeport Farmers Market event. [12]
Northalsted Market Days is an annual two-day festival in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Established in 1982, it's the Midwest's largest street festival with annual attendance exceeding 300,000 people over the two-day event.
Sally Schwartz, a native of Chicago, is the founder of the Randolph Street Market. She is an events specialist, and previously owned and managed Paint Me A Party Productions, a corporate special events and incentive travel marketing company. [2] Special Events magazine listed the company among the Top 50 Event Planners (cite SE mag, 2002).
The market is located on the near southwest side of Chicago, just north of the South Branch of the Chicago River, between Chicago's Pilsen and McKinley Park neighborhoods. It consists of a single building on a 26-acre (110,000 m 2) site. There are two entrances: one from the west on Damen Avenue, and one from the north near Blue Island Avenue.
Fresh Thyme Market is a regional American organic food supermarket chain based in Downers Grove, Illinois. In 2023, Fresh Thyme was ranked number 13 out of 43 on Forbes' America's Best Midsize Employers in the Retail and Wholesale Industry Category and 218 out of 500 overall on the Forbes' list. [ 2 ]
An autumn farmers' market in Farmington, Michigan A farmers' market at twilight in Layyah, Pakistan Blueberries in late July 2023 at the Jean Talon Market in Montreal. A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, [1] [2] also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary [3] [4]) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers.