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Kristina Otte of the forthcoming Morton Grove Farmers’ Market writes:
Our new market will start on May 29th (20100 in Morton Grove, Illinois.  We’re looking for more vendors of both fruits and vegetables, flowers, salsas, olives, cheeses, and other items, as well as bedding plants, perennials and cut flowers.  We have a prime location right on [...]

Evanstons Farmers’ Market in Illinois, held Saturdays at University Place and Oak Avenue, will end its year on November 7.
Special events are planned for the coming weks to generate business, including a non-profit day October 10 when 48 local community organizations will set up informational booths. For Halloween, the market will have a “Celebrate Fall” [...]

Unlike other companies laying off workers during the current recession, Midwest Control Products in Bushnell, Illinois, has put many of its 68 employees to work on alternative tasks, like growing produce for sale at a farmers market in nearby Macomb.
“Employees now do maintenance work that the company used to contract out. They’re cleaning offices, tuckpointing [...]

Posted by karcryo@mac.com:
The Geneva Green Market NFP (GGM) is pleased to announce the grand opening of their third season of the local farmers market on Thursday, June 4th from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at their regular location, 75 North River Lane, in Geneva.
This year, the GGM will be introducing four new vegetable vendors, a [...]

The Brookfield Farmers Market in Brookfield, Illinois, will be held at the Brookfield Village Hall Parking Lot at 8830 Brookfield, from June through October this year.
Located 13 miles west of downtown Chicago, Brookfield is a pastoral suburb, home to the world famous Brookfield Zoo.
The Village Hall in Brookfield is adjacent to Kiwanis Park and the [...]

The Illinois Department of Agriculture is offering a series of workshops for market managers and interested vendors to help farmers’ markets the state prepare for the 2009 season. Workshop topics will include: rules and regulations, available resources, as well as other farmers’ market issues. There also will be question and answer time.
The following is a [...]

A new farmers’ market is being organized in the city of Highland, Illinois, with plans to open June 4 of this year.
Highland Markt und Mehr will be held at Lindendale Park and the Madison County fairgrounds in Highland on Thursdays from 4-8 p.m.from June 4 through October, according to a report in the Riverfront Times [...]

Evanston Farmers Market vendor Henry Brockman stirred up a controversy that made the pages of the Chicago Tribune when he started charging customers 25 cents for a set of four of his plastic bags.

Brockman told the newspaper he didn’t like the environmental implications of plastic shopping bags. “I’m an organic farmer, and here I am [...]