Farmers’ Market – Alexian Brothers Medical Center

To celebrate Easter, Midwest Foods set up an indoor farmers’ market at the Alexian Brothers Medical Center, offering high quality, both imported specialty produce and locally grown produce and products. For our second farmers’ market of the season, our goal was to provide a dynamic marketplace, consisting of nutritious, consciously grown and produced local food, education and information regarding our partner farms.

Midwest Foods Farmers’ Market is the perfect place to connect our local producers and farmers to food organizations, chefs, restaurants, but also to the general public. We are strongly committed to support our local family farms, and to promote a healthier society through proper knowledge and appreciation for local, fresh and sustainably grown produce.

MWF Farmers’ Market Guideline:

1.Advocating for the consumption of locally grown produce;

2.Respect for and preservation of sustainable farming methods;

3.A vibrant thriving community of local farms.

What was fresh at the Alexian Brothers Medical Center Farmers’ Market:

Vegetables: Easter Egg Radish, Broccoli, White Cauliflower, Red Peppers, Portobello Mushrooms, Sweet Potatoes, Purple Fingerling Potatoes, Romaine Lettuce, Red Leaf Lettuce, Organic Rainbow Carrots, Green Beans, Yellow Wax Beans.

Fruits: Clementines, Blood Oranges, Pomelos, Black Seedless Grapes

Local Produce: Golden Beets, Red Beets, Candy Stripped Beets, Turnips, Parsnip, from Rice Lake Farms in Michigan.

Local Cheese: Havarti Horseradish, Buttermilk Blue, Original Grand Cru, Van Gogh Vintage Gouda from our partner farm in Wisconsin, Roth Cheese.

Why LOCAL?

1.More FLAVORFUL: local produce provides fresh taste at its peak;

2.More NUTRITIOUS: local produce contains higher levels of nutrients;

3.GENETICALLY DIVERSE: local produce offers more variety;

4.ENERGY CONSCIOUS: local produce reduces fossil fuel use for transport, machinery, fertilizers and pesticides;

5.SUPPORTIVE OF THE LOCAL FARMER: buying local sets an example for making responsible choices for our health and our environment.

Contact your sales representative, book your farmers’ market today and spread the health!

Farmers’ Market Display

Farmers’ Market Display

Farmers’ Market Display

Easter Egg radishes are a good source of Vitamins A, C, potassium, zinc and dietary fiber

Red Sweet Peppers – Bell peppers have been cultivated for more than 9000 years, with the earliest cultivation having taken place in South and Central America.

Organic Rainbow Carrots

Local Parsnip, Portobello Mushrooms, Easter Egg Radishes, Yellow Wax Beans, Romaine Lettuce, Local Beets, and Tangelo Oranges

Farmers’ Market Display

Farmers’ Market Display

Local Cheese, courtesy of Roth Cheese – A close circle of farmers, explorers, cooks and cheesemakers; wanderers and lovers of adventurous tastes, recipes and pairings, constantly searching for the wonderful, the weird, the “never tasted that before.” And while they search everywhere, they stay close to their roots, close to the earth and even closer to the passions that inspire them.