Good Food Blog - In the Spotlight
Seed 2 Growth Ventures — known more familiarly as S2G — is breaking new ground as a Chicago-based venture capital firm providing capital to cutting-edge food, restaurant and agriculture businesses in the Good Food sector. As the company puts it, S2G “invests in transformative food and agriculture companies whose...read more
By Bob Benenson, FamilyFarmed “Good Food movement” and “Local Food movement” are virtually synonymous to a lot of people. No surprise, really. Locally grown produce, picked at the peak of maturity, tends to be super tasty. Much research shows fresher food maintains more nutrients than food sold weeks after...read more
FamilyFarmed will kick off its 13th annual, three-day Good Food Festival and Conference on Thursday, March 16 with the Good Food Financing & Innovation Conference. This event brings together investors, farmers, food entrepreneurs, trade buyers, retailers and distributors who are dedicated to accelerating the growth of the Good Food...read more
by Gabriella Baldassari, FamilyFarmed “Growing Young Farmers” is one of the most important themes for our work at FamilyFarmed. In fact, Direct Market Success, our new farmer training manual and workshop program, is aimed strongly at young and other beginning farmers, who typically build their first customer bases through farmers...read more
The Frontera Farmer Foundation — which has given nearly $2 million in grants to Midwestern farmers since Rick Bayless founded it in 2003 — is engaged in a new philanthropic partnership with FamilyFarmed. A major fundraising event, scheduled for the Art Institute of Chicago on April 30, will celebrate...read more
What is Direct Market Success? FamilyFarmed has developed a new farmer training curriculum specifically for Direct Market farmers. Be the first to get the new manual free at two upcoming workshops hosted by National Foodworks Services and The Land Connection. Selling in CSA’s? Selling at Farmer’s Markets? Selling to...read more
Are you a young and/or beginning farmer who wants to share your story? Or do you know a young/beginning farmer whose story should be told? FamilyFarmed is officially launching a Growing Young Farmers series on this Good Food on Every Table site. And we are crowd-sourcing for some of the great stories...read more
Nine competitively selected Fellows are participating in the third year of FamilyFarmed’s Good Food Business Accelerator, and they represent a wide range of exciting entrepreneurial ventures: from unique pies and clean meals to tea-infused energy bites and indigenous wild rice cereal, and from locally sourced juices and sparkling fruit...read more
Though known as a “celebrity chef,” Chicago’s Rick Bayless much prefers to talk about food than to talk about himself. So it was no surprise when he turned an acceptance speech into a loving tribute to the late Julia Child — the TV chef and author who Bayless credits with shaping...read more
Urban agriculture is on the rise. Farms and gardens are popping up in vacant lots, on rooftops, and in indoor spaces across the country. Chicago is a national leader in this movement. With more than 800 sites — according to The Chicago Urban Agriculture Mapping Project — Chicago continues to...read more
