Buy Fresh Buy Local Illinois is now open for farmers, farmers markets, and local food businesses looking to expand their customer base and connect with more Illinois shoppers. As the order to stop normal operations amid the COVID-19 outbreak continues, Illinois farms, as well as food and beverage businesses along the supply chain, are seeking […]
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New Year’s Resolutions at TLC
Submitted by Mallory Krieger on Tue, 01/02/2018 – 10:00am Every January 1, people across the world reflect on the closing year and vision a better, more productive, healthy future. It is the time for New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s resolutions, boiled down, are simply goals set at a specific time of year. Goal setting is […]
Planting Seedlings and Plant Starts
Learning how to properly plant and care for the plants in a garden are important skills for kids to have, whether they are interested in food or farming or not. Stop by the market information booth to get your FREE Plant Seedlings / Plant Starts Kids Kit (while supplies last). Get dirty and have some […]
Pumpkin Pie in a Bag
Sometimes making a pie can be overwhelming, but we’ve broken this recipe down to prepare pumpkin pie in a bag. The great thing about the pumpkin pie in a bag is that it can be made anywhere! It’s a fun activity to do with kids, too.
Rural Routes | Little Farm at Weldon Springs
Part of the beauty woven throughout the Little Farm at Weldon Springs is the openness with which Anna and Chris follow where their dreams grow, discovering and weaving new ideas into the farm as they go.
Rural Routes: Havilah Gardens
Havilah’s fish, microbe and plant system is called aquaponics—a farming system that involves growing plants without soil in a water-based solution (hydroponics) and fish cultivation (aquaculture).
