I’m hoping to be around next weekend so we can attend the Winter Farmers Market in Austin, which is one of the westernmost and among the most troubled neighborhoods in Chicago.
Apparently we’ll be able to buy organic lettuce, herbs, meat, cheese, syrup and soaps…in the dead of Winter!
I was feeling like it’s too good to be true, but the bulletin listing I saw had a link to the sponsor: Churches’ Center for Land & People.
The ecumenical group (with support from Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist, Catholic, Episcopal, United Church of Christ, Quaker and Unitarian churches) organizes similar markets in Iowa and Wisconsin too.
And who could pass up an opportunity to taste test the wares. At the March 1 event in Austin, brunch will be served.
CCLP donates 10 percent of its receipts to the Harvest of Hope Fund to aid small farmers in crisis. I’m not sure if that’s related to the Harvest of Hope Foundation.
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