Category Archives: farming

Become an Illinois Field Mom and See First Hand Where Your Food Comes From

Become an Illinois Field Mom and See First Hand Where Your Food Comes From

ShareTweet Are you curious about where your food comes from? Now is your chance to see how the food you purchase is grown and ask all the questions you’ve been worried about. For the second year in a row, the Illinois Farm Families organization is inviting Chicago area moms to become Field Moms who willContinue Reading

A Mom’s Dairy Adventure: Milk From Farm to Fridge

A Mom’s Dairy Adventure: Milk From Farm to Fridge

ShareTweet What type of milk do you buy for your family? Whole? 2%? Skim? Do you buy organic or conventional? Or do you reach for soy, almond, or even hemp milk in your dairy case? Having so many choices and so many conflicting news reports to sort through has made purchasing milk an overwhelmingly complicatedContinue Reading

The Uncertain Future of Food

ShareTweet Over the last few months, I’ve read some articles in the New York Times that have terrified me, articles that seemed to be straight out of a futuristic science fiction model. The tone of the news has changed and events that seemed to be far off in the future, worries about the world weContinue Reading