a plug for City Farm
a plug for City Farm
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a plug for City Farm
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Post #1 - June 15th, 2008, 5:21 amCity Farm is a former vacant lot in a rapidly changing, historically economically depressed urban neighborhood. What a change a few years makes! Now it's an organic farm using sustainable practices, and turning out some of the areas best produce for top Chicago restaurants. I've had City Farm products at Vie, Frontera Grill, and North Pond.
Yesterday, I paid the farm a visit for the first time, and I was wowed. The caring, friendly farmer greeted me at the gate as he was getting ready to open the "market stand". He was still writing on a whiteboard, listing all of the stuff available for purchase yesterday: radishes, salad greens, tatsoii, squash blossoms, and much more. I told him I'd like a bunch of radishes, and which point he walked with me over to where the radishes grow and yanked them out of the ground for me. Had I wanted squash blossoms, again he would have walked over to them and picked the flowers from the plant, right there and then. It really amazes me that in the heart of very urban Chicago, I can have food this local and supremely fresh. I'm a big fan of farmer's market shopping, but this takes it up a notch! The hours are also much more convenient than your average farmer's amrket (see below)
City Farm
Corner of Division & Clybourn (across from Starbucks)
Market Stand Open from 3pm-6pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 10-1 on Saturday....defended from strong temptations to social ambition by a still stronger taste for tripe and onions." Screwtape in The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
Fuckerberg on Food
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Post #2 - June 15th, 2008, 4:03 pmI believe Outstanding in The Field is doing their Chicago farm to table dinner at City Farm on August 19. i was sad when i realized I did not act fast enough to secure a reservation. i hope somebody who posts here is attending. Sounds like a very cool place.
www.outstandinginthefield.com
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Post #3 - June 16th, 2008, 5:48 amiblock9 wrote:I believe Outstanding in The Field is doing their Chicago farm to table dinner at City Farm on August 19. i was sad when i realized I did not act fast enough to secure a reservation. i hope somebody who posts here is attending. Sounds like a very cool place.
iblock,
I've had the pleasure of both attending and cooking for dinner at City Farm and it is indeed a very cool place.
City Farm
City Farm BBQ Dinner
Enjoy,
Gary
