Year-Round Buy Local Market in Chicago May be on the Way!

I’m very excited about a new shop sponsored by the ChiTown Department of Cultural Affairs: Chicago’s Downtown Farmstand.

I am so going there this week to check it out if I can get time at lunch or after work. According to reports I’ve seen, all the inventory is produced within 250 miles of Chicago. That’s actually a pretty large radius, more than most locavore limits.

But that fits nicely within my own travels. In less than 250 miles, I can make it to The Farm, to the iFarmer’s hometown and to all the places we love to visit in Michigan and Wisconsin.

So I know for sure that there’s a potential that the store can stock some of my favorite items at least through mid-December.

But there was good news today from the Trib, the store might stay open through the holidays and eventually become a year-round operation. The same article notes that Lincoln Park’s Green City Market may stay open year round.

Both these news items make me wonder what “fresh” items these markets will sell locally? Will it all be greenhouse, aquaponics stuff?