Green Grocer is an intimate, neighborhood market that features organically grown, locally produced food products and specialty items.
They work closely with Midwestern farmers and producers to provide our customers the freshest food available while supporting our local economy. By choosing to work primarily with Midwestern sources they get to know our food providers, our food tastes better, and we are able to reduce harmful CO2 emissions by eliminating the need for long distance transportation.
Filed under Green Products, Grocery/Wholesalers, Local Food
Cousin’s Incredible Vitality is a restaurant, raw culinary art school, and community center. It exists to serve a growing community of health-conscious individuals. They offer the high quality prepared gourmet raw food, products, services and education, while uniting those in search of knowledge with those who are well-informed, engaging in social activities, support groups and discussions.
They offer community outreach programs to help educate our coming generations on how nutrition effects their experience in life, as well as enlightening people in poorer neighborhoods about how they can prevent diseases and illness, such as diabetes, hypoglycemia, systemic candida, colon cancer and more.
The restaurant, located on 3038 W. Irving Park Rd, also hosts events and meetup groups. A variety of foods and products can be purchased from the online store.
Local Harvest is a website on which you can find nearby farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, CSAs and many other goodies.
The site also includes a blog, forum space, and newsletter.
Farm Direct is the Illinois farmer-to-consumer of locally produced and locally sold foods. The site features 600 growers and processors and 200 farmers markets who sell directly to consumers.
Greg Christian Consulting is a sustainability consulting firm that provides organizations in the food service industry with sustainable solutions, implementation strategies, and the expertise to adopt sustainable operations.
Filed under Consulting, Grocery/Wholesalers, Restaurant/Dining
Chicago Community Food Security Initiatives 