Make Mother’s Day extra special with locally-grown flowers
With Mother’s Day, school graduations and the traditional start of wedding season, May is a big time for flower growers. So our featured farm this month is Flora Bay Farm, located just south of Carbondale in southern Illinois. Courtney Smith switched careers from...
National CSA Week!
CSAs – Know your Farmer, Know Your Food Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) was at the cutting edge as consumer interest in buying food directly from local farmers started to build. True believers eagerly subscribed to receive CSA boxes from their...
ILFMA Ambassador
Introducing ILFMA’s new Ambassador! The Illinois Farmers Market Association is excited to welcome Bob Benenson as our first ILFMA Ambassador! An avid home cook, Bob loves shopping at farmers markets and is always in pursuit of the freshest locally grown...
Covid-19 and Farmers Markets
How does the farmers market community respond to COVID-19? What will 2021 farmers markets look like? Farmers Markets For The 2021 Season 3-29-2021; 2-3 pm Recording Available Join Janie Maxwell, Executive Director of the Illinois Farmers Market Association to discuss...