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Farmers Market

Community

PCC farm stand opens June 5

By AustinTalks | June 3, 2018

This is the eighth year Austin Farm will be selling low-priced, organically grown fruits and vegetables; it’s operated by PCC Community Wellness Center.

Community

Indoor farmers market Sunday in Austin

By AustinTalks | February 15, 2018

Stop by St. Paul Lutheran School’s gymnasium, 846 N. Menard Ave., from 12 to 6 p.m. Feb. 18. Free sampling from noon to 4 p.m.

Community

West Side farmers markets winding down

By AustinTalks | October 16, 2017

Don’t miss the chance to visit on Tuesdays this month the PCC Farmers Market, at 330 N. Lotus, and the Garfield Park Market, at 200 N. Kedzie Ave., this Thursday.

Community

Fresh from the PCC Austin community farm

By AustinTalks | May 29, 2015

This year’s season starts Tuesday, June 2 at 330 N. Lotus Ave.

Community

PCC Austin sells fruits, vegetables on Fridays this summer

By Jinnie Hoggarth | June 24, 2014

It’s one of several farmers markets that have started on the West Side.

Community

North Avenue farmer’s market begins Sunday

By AustinTalks | June 5, 2014

Four other West Side markets start later this month.

Business

Produce market sees growth in third year

By Katie Kather | August 8, 2013

Fresh food is available every Friday through the end of August.

News

Ald. Graham speaks at citywide environmental event

By Patrick Smith | September 19, 2012

The Sept. 15 “Showing Approaches that Work” conference at Truman College brought together residents concerned about environmental and sustainability issues to learn and share success stories.

News

West Side farmers markets to open in late June

By AustinTalks | May 10, 2012

The welcome news comes two years after the city canceled the area’s only market.

Opinion

Austin couple wish elected officials would visit West Side at night

By Ron Reid | August 4, 2011

They invite the mayor, police chief and others to return when criminal activity is much higher, and they urge that an action plan be developed to improve neighborhood safety.

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News

  • Expungement, record sealing event helps West Siders get jobs after leaving prison

    Austin resident Anthony Jefferson has been working over the past six years to expunge his criminal record. With help from the Monroe Foundation, he's moving toward the clean slate he wants to achieve to secure employment.

  • Get free groceries, other help from these Austin groups

    On a recent Thursday, volunteers from What About Us Charitable Enterprises spent the morning filling dozens of grocery bags with fresh food and staples that soon filled the arms of West Side residents in need. Dorin “Pastor Mac” McIntyre, executive director and co-founder of What About Us Charitable Enterprises and pastor of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, is one of many helping Austin residents struggling with food insecurity.

  • 29th Ward residents invited to holiday events on Tuesday

  • 29th Ward residents invited to propose how to spend $450,000

    Austin residents are invited to participate in this year's participatory budgeting cycle. The annual process lets ward residents ages 14 and up decide how to spend a portion of the aldermanic menu money.

  • Forty Acres Fresh Market marks important moment this week in bringing store to Austin

    Austin moves one step closer this week to getting a new grocery store with the groundbreaking of Forty Acres Fresh Market in the heart of the Soul City Corridor. Another effort to expand food offerings on the West Side continues with the Austin Community Food Co-op, which held a virtual info session last week on its efforts to bring a grocery store to the area.

  • Healing in nature workshop set for Saturday

    The Westside Cultural Alliance continues its "See, Feel and Heal" nature series Saturday at Garfield Park Nature Area, 100 N. Central Park with a workshop on making memory boxes. The workshop sessions focus on art and nature as vehicles of healing through art therapy, which provides wholistic healing for the body, mind and spirit.

  • Illinois residents can apply for help with paying gas, electric bills

    Applications are now open for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for qualified residential customers who are over the age of 60, have a disability or have children under the age of 6 to receive financial assistance to pay their energy bills. LIHEAP is a federally funded bill payment assistance program that helps low- and fixed-income families pay their utility during the winter heating season.

  • West Siders turn out for chili cook off in Austin’s Soul City

    Over a dozen local chefs competed in the second annual "It’s Getting Chili in Soul City" event on Saturday. A team of five who make up the Austin African American Business Networking Association board – Malcolm Crawford, Shirley Fields, Sharmine Rickett, Ronald Smith and Marshawn Felton – created the chili contest last year.

  • Chicago Marathon runner raises money for West Side girls

    Over the last 20 years, Ashley Graham has run 56 marathons - including the Chicago Marathon five times. Several of those marathons she raised money for charity - and this year was no different.

  • Stop by Austin farmers market this week

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