Showing posts with label Green City Market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green City Market. Show all posts
Monday, August 6, 2012
Business Spotlight: Green City Market
During these past few weeks we've interviewed many businesses and locals who are affiliated with Green City Market so we thought we would speak with Dana Benigno, Executive Director of Green City Market to see what it was all about.
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Name: Dana Benigno
Title: Executive Director of Green City Market
Favorite thing about Chicago?: Definitely the food!
Where in Chicago have you lived?: I've lived in Chicago for 22 years now ... I've lived in Lincoln Park, Gold Coast, River North, Old Town, and am currently located in Ukrainian Village. It's my favorite so far.
What's Green City Market's "green angle"?: Green City Market functions as a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization promoting locally and sustainably grown food. Our uniqueness comes from the fact that we are the only market in the nation to require farmers to be certified by a nationally recognized 3rd party agency. This helps to maintain transparency between the shoppers and vendors in the market.
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Name: Dana Benigno
Title: Executive Director of Green City Market
Favorite thing about Chicago?: Definitely the food!
Where in Chicago have you lived?: I've lived in Chicago for 22 years now ... I've lived in Lincoln Park, Gold Coast, River North, Old Town, and am currently located in Ukrainian Village. It's my favorite so far.
What's Green City Market's "green angle"?: Green City Market functions as a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization promoting locally and sustainably grown food. Our uniqueness comes from the fact that we are the only market in the nation to require farmers to be certified by a nationally recognized 3rd party agency. This helps to maintain transparency between the shoppers and vendors in the market.
Our typical shoppers vary from renown chefs to
locals in the city. Shoppers at our Wednesday market tend to be chefs picking
up their orders and looking for some fresh food to plate at their restaurants
whereas our Saturday market caters more to the community.
This is our 13th season and something new we are implementing this year is our composting option
for trash. We encourage our vendors to use compostable items and have
successfully reduced our trash amount from nearly eleven bins to two. Even
still, the two trash bins we do use come from shoppers bringing in outside
goods and needing to dispose of them.
Green
City Market also offers several different educational programs available to the
community as part of fulfilling their mission to promote a healthier society
and appreciation for local, fresh, sustainably raised produce and products. Click here for more
information on their various programs.Thursday, July 26, 2012
Correction to Business Spotlight: Frontera Grill
We have a few corrections to our post this past Monday, July 23rd:
- The full name of the non-profit organization Jeff oversees as Rick Bayless' assistant is "Frontera Farmer Foundation"
- Only XOCO is LEED certified. All 3 restaruants are certified by the GRA (Green Restaurant Association).
We apologize for the confusion--thanks again, Jeff!
Monday, July 23, 2012
Gateway Green's BUsiness Spotlight: Frontera Grill
Chicago Gateway Green is very excited to spotlight Jeff Maimon from Frontera Grill this week!
Jeff, oversees the Frontera Foundation, which is a nonprofit that gives small farmers that serve the Chicago area working capital grants up to $12,000. To date they have given out one million dollars in grants.
Name: Jeff Maimon
Jeff, oversees the Frontera Foundation, which is a nonprofit that gives small farmers that serve the Chicago area working capital grants up to $12,000. To date they have given out one million dollars in grants.
Name: Jeff Maimon
Title: Assistant to Rick Bayless
What neighborhood do you live in?: River West
Favorite thing Chicago?: It depends on the season but overall the food. He believes that the local food movement in Chicago is the best in the country because we have to work with more seasonal foods rather than in a warmer climate such as California, “you really have to know your craft and be able to think outside the box.”.
What is Frontera Grill's green angle?: All Bayless restaurants are LEED certified and use food from 10-15 local farms. They also change the menus every month to keep up with the changing seasons, keep restaurants interesting and their chef’s on top of their game and creativity. Even though the restaurants are a destination for tourist, Bayless really wants them to be a destination for Chicago people and represent Chicago’s style of food.
What neighborhood do you live in?: River West
Favorite thing Chicago?: It depends on the season but overall the food. He believes that the local food movement in Chicago is the best in the country because we have to work with more seasonal foods rather than in a warmer climate such as California, “you really have to know your craft and be able to think outside the box.”.
What is Frontera Grill's green angle?: All Bayless restaurants are LEED certified and use food from 10-15 local farms. They also change the menus every month to keep up with the changing seasons, keep restaurants interesting and their chef’s on top of their game and creativity. Even though the restaurants are a destination for tourist, Bayless really wants them to be a destination for Chicago people and represent Chicago’s style of food.
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