WIC/SFMNP Opportunity for Farmers!
Are you a farmer who is interested in accepting WIC and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits? You can determine your eligibility by checking to make sure that you sell in a county where the program operates. Click here to review a map of the 37...
Amber Waves of Local Grain as More Farmers Offer Healthy, Sustainable, Tasty Options
Don’t you just love the aroma of artisan bread, fresh and warm from the bakery or your home oven. Makes you want to eat it right away, by itself or with some local creamery butter. And increasingly, that artisan bread is made from healthful, sustainably produced grain...
ILFMA Winter Farmers Markets
ILFMA 2022-23 Winter Farmers Market List! Winter is a great time to continue shopping at your favorite farmers market, and/or maybe plan a trip to one that’s new to you! Many farmers markets across Illinois continue through the winter months. Farmers are...
Not Your Usual Holiday Gift: Surprise Family and Friends with Delicious Food Products (and Learn About Illinois’ New Farm to Market Act)
It is holiday gift season. And it is easy for Illinois residents to find and purchase delicious homemade food products to present to family and friends as unique gifts. That because the state’s new Home to Market Act, enacted in 2021 and effective at the start of this...