Nineteen local food projects were awarded grants aimed at strengthening the local food system and increase access to agricultural products grown and raised in Illinois.
Joshua Snedden, co-owner of Fox at the Fork Farm in Monee, Illinois, says there’s a lot of faults in Illinois’s local food infrastructure. Snedden says without a food processing facility nearby to turn his harvested vegetables into canned goods for the slow season, tomatoes that could be sold at grocery stores end up in compost.