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Seventy-five percent of adults prefer locally grown, sustainable food, according to the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP). As demand for fresh food grows, CMAP is stepp...

Credit Screen shot from The Local Food System, a CMAP brochure

Residents of Lake County and other suburbanites want local, sustainably grown food. Just one indicator of this trend is the growth in farmers markets — the number of farmers markets in Il...

Credit Claudia Lenart

Prairie Crossing Developer Vicky Ranney has watched a vision of a housing development built around a farm grow into a thriving community over the past 18 years. Now Ranney and Prairie Cro...