Farmers Market Frenzy: Find One on Our Map

We asked our readers to share their favorite farmers markets in the south ‘burbs and complied a map based on your submissions.

All around the south suburbs, farmers markets are starting to open up for the season. With the help of our readers, we put together a handy map so that you can find the best local offerings of the region. Click on each icon for more details on the particular farmers market. Don’t see your favorite farmers market? Check over here to add it for next week’s map.

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Business Comings 'n Goings

Business Comings & Goings: Peppo’s Opens in Tinley Park

Orland Park Area Chamber of Commerce's Community Expo will be held Saturday at Carl Sandburg High School • Reptile Show and Travel Fest coming to Tinley Convention Center this weekend • Gap remodels Orland Square Mall store.

“I’ve been looking forward to this for years,” said Mike Houston, 46, of Palos Hills, after he was the first customer at Peppo’s Dili-Deli in Tinley Park when it opened at 9:30 a.m. Friday at 6905 W. 159th St. “I thought they should have expanded years ago,” said Houston who added he was carrying on a family tradition regarding Peppo’s, which opened in Palos Hills in 1976. “I’m standing in for my brother Dan,” said Houston. “He was the first customer in 1976. He would have been here for this today but he had to work.” “I plan on being the first customer at their next location, too,” he said. So what makes Peppo’s so great. “The guts,” said Houston echoed immediately by the three other people sitting at his table. “You have to eat the sub …

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Fresh Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables in Late September and October

Patch's guide to locally grown produce and where to find it.

As the weather cools and the trees start to turn, the selection of locally grown produce changes as well. Though local growers may stop carrying your summer favorites, they still have a lot of fresh produce to offer and at a great price. Where should you go for fresh fall produce? Patch assembled a list of what's in season and where it can be purchased, as well as tips for picking your own fresh items. Fall produce usually includes apples (limited quanties this year), Asian pears, beans, broccoli, cabbage, eggplant, grapes, greens, gourds, peppers, pumpkins, raspberries, squash, sweet potatoes, tomatoes and watermelons. Whether you prefer farmer stands, farmers' markets or U-Pick (more information about this is below), there are plenty of …

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Kate Duff

8:55 am on Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Homewood market will be operating until October 22nd and Flossmoor until October 14th.   more ›

Fresh Seasonal Fruits and Vegetables in August and Early September

Patch's guide to locally grown produce and where to find it.

Summer is far from over, so get fruits and vegetables at their freshest. Not sure where to start? Luckily, a number of farms, farm stands and farmers' markets are available nearby. Patch assembled a list of what's in season and where it can be purchased, as well as tips for picking your own fresh produce. Available fruits and veggies will vary by month. Picking produce at its peak time is key to getting the most for your money. In August, fresh apples, beans, beets, blackberries, cabbage, cantaloupe, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, grapes, herbs, onions, peaches, pears, peppers, potatoes, raspberries, squash, tomatoes, watermelons and zucchini will be in season. Some types of apples should be ready in early August. Blackberries and grapes …

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Lilly Melin

12:58 pm on Monday, August 15, 2011

Yes, thank you Rick, I bought from you this weekend with my son. I'm glad that you and Kate are there at the market, I will only buy organic :)   more ›

Families and Veggie Lovers Visit Last Farmers Market of the Year

The popular farmers market, held every Saturday morning at the downtown Metra stop, will start up again in June 2011.

What will the Konraths of Tinley Park do every Saturday morning, now that the Tinley Park Farmers Market is done for the season? "Bundle," Amanda Konrath said, laughing. "Once it gets cold." Amanda Konrath has taken her daughters, Katrina, 6, and Rebekah, 4, to the farmers market held at the Metra station on Oak Park Avenue every weekend, she said. The last farmer's market of the season was Saturday. They won't start again until the first Saturday of June. What started as a springtime activity for the Konraths turned into a summertime one and, on Saturday, an autumn one as the girls looked for Halloween pumpkins. Katrina has two costume ideas in the works – one for trick-or-treating, one for school. "A princess fairy (for home) and for my …

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Tick Tock ... Tinley Farmers Market Winding Down

Drizzles made way to lightning Saturday at the second-to-last Tinley Park Farmers Market of the year.

The end is near. Well, at least for the 2010 season of the weekly Tinley Park Farmers Market. Next Saturday's fair will be the last for the year, organizers said. It re-starts the first Saturday in June. It is held at the Metra parking lot at the Oak Park Avenue stop. And although rain cut short many shoppers' trips through the market's veggies, crafts and snow cones, here's a selection of moments from 2010's second-to-last event.

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