North Shore's Largest Organic Plant Sale Will Open Farmers Market Season

HIGHLAND PARK, IL — The Ravinia Farmers Market is excited to kick off it’s 39th farmers market season with more than 15 vendors and North Shore’s largest organic plant sale benefiting the Organic Teaching Garden program at Highland Park High School.

Ravinia Farmers Markets will take place every Wednesday from June 7 to October 25 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The organic plant sale will only occur on opening day.

To kick off the season, Ravinia Farmers Market is hosting the largest certified organic plant sale on the North Shore, with all plants provided by Robert Boyce of Natural Environments, a certified organic farm. New vendors will join long established ones, including Gus, who will be again be selling crepes.

A variety of conventional and organic vegetables and fruit, cheeses, baked goods and many more vendors will line Dean Avenue at Roger Williams and St. Johns Avenue at Jens Jensen Park, across from the Ravinia Metra station in the Ravinia District of Highland Park. There will be ample free parking available.

Guaranteed to have the best prices in town, a portion of the proceeds will benefit the Organic Teaching Garden educational program that instructs more than 200 AP Environmental Science students from HPHS on the principles of organic gardening.

Students come to the garden for a fall tasting of the crop and prepare the soil and plant the seeds and seedlings in spring, and every student has the opportunity to work up to four hours in the garden for extra community service credit.

Additionally, Ravinia Farmers Market is now under new management and being run by Ed Kugler of Taste Marketing, who promised more selection and a wider variety of products. Kugler is a long-time Highland Park resident and market vendor who first became involved with the market in 1978 with a booth selling sprouts, and has been an organic vegetable grower at the market since 2013.

For more information and new vendor applications, contact Ed Kugler of Taste Marketing at 847.561.1302. Ample free parking is available.

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