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We all like to eat, and living well includes sharing meals with our friends and family. This section will restaurant news and recipes, and anything else related to buying or preparing foods and drinks.

Time to enjoy local produce! Find it at these local Farmer's Markets and French Markets:

Any Day - Mayneland Farm Stand at Bauer & Mill St. in Naperville - See Hours and available produce
Winfield: Wednesday 7am - 1pm at County Farm and Geneva Rd. - Starts June 7, 2017
Wheaton French Market -Saturday 8am - 2 pm - Main and Liberty - April 14 - Nov 11, 2017
Naperville Farmer's Market - Saturday 7am - noon at 5th Avenue Station 200 E. Fifth Ave., June 3 - Oct 28, 2017
Glen Ellyn French Market - Sunday 9 am - 1:30 pm - Glenwood parking lot at 460 Crescent Boulevard - starts June 4, 2017,
Geneva Farmer's Market - Thursday - 7:30 AM – 1 PM at the Exchange Street Parking Lot - June 15- Oct 19, 2017
Geneva French Market - Sundays 9AM-2PM - Metra parking Lot NW corner of South Street and 4th Street - April 16 - November 12, 2017
Batavia Farmer's Market - Saturday 8am to noon - River St. between Wilson and State St - June 3rd - October 28, 2017 - 3rd Saturdays features the Artisan Collective where you can shop local from artists and designers.

Join a local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and get a basket (aka share) of locally grown produce every week or every other week. Some of the CSA's may be filling up, but there is probably still time. Here are a few:

Rustic Road Farm - pickup / sign up Saturdays at Wheaton French Market - farm in Elburn
Green Earth Institute - sign up online - pickup Tue/Friday in Naperville or Wed in Winfield, near County Farm and Jewel Rd. - farm in Naperville
Find more CSA's at Band of Farmers

Home Grown Tomatoes

This year our garden produced a bumper crop of tomatoes. We were particularly busy, and lucky to pick them - no time for cooking. The home grown tomatoes are delicious, but you can only eat so many. After giving away bags of tomatoes, there were LOTS left, and some were starting to go bad. How do you quickly use tomatoes before they go to waste? Here are 3 ideas to quickly use lots of tomatoes.

Too Many Tomatoes & Too Little Time: 3 Quick Ideas

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