We’re so excited to be bringing our own gorgeous baby greens to the market this week! Unfortunately, we do not yet have enough to sell for take-home, but we hope you’ll enjoy their sweet and tender flavor when you order the Salade du Jour from the Tiny Greens Kitchen, also featuring Mick Klug’s asparagus and Prairie Fruits Farm chèvre. We’ll also be bringing more of the baby kale, which we here call “kale flavored lettuce,” for it’s mild, almost sweet, cabbagey flavor and so soft a bite, you don’t even need to cook it! Enjoy our baby kale raw, lightly dressed in an acidic vinaigrette for a mind-blowing kale experience! Also try it tossed into a quick stir-fry or gently wilted by the warmth of fresh pasta with extra virgin olive oil, a squeeze of lemon, a grate of parmeggiano reggiano and a pinch of chile flakes. We’ll also have radishes, white bunching onions, flowering chives, and 8 oz. bags of our spring mix, a jubilant toss of clover and china rose radish sprouts, sunflower greens and snow pea shoots.

There is even more cause for excitement this Wednesday as the chef demo will be our very good friend Martial Noguier from one sixtyblue. See you there tomorrow, Chicago!

Wow, Chicago, wow! Thank you so much for coming out this Wednesday for opening day of Green City Market. We know it’s been a long winter but we had no idea you would all be so hungry! We’ll be amping up production of all our baby micro-greens and those phenomenal sprouted wheat tortillas in the coming weeks to meet your demand, but please forgive us if we run short these next few markets. Sprouts and wheatgrass we have a lot of on hand and we promise to fill the fridge and keep the juice pumping this Saturday! We’re also very excited to see our gardens beginning to take on an ever-more edible appearance and we can’t wait to share the seasons with you all. Tomorrow we’ll be bring more of those tender, baby red Russian kale leaves, beet greens, radishes, chives and bunching onions.

Saturday is also Green Fest at Navy Pier and the 10th Anniversary Rally for Local Sustainable Farming at the Market. Mayor Daley will be on hand with many other notable figures in the sustainability, local and organic food movements. It looks to be a great day for food, community, environmental sanity and well-being in Chicago. You won’t want to miss it!

For all of you who found us at Urbana’s Market in the Square this morning, thank you for stopping by! And thanks again for visiting our website and blog. We had a great time seeing all of you this morning, old friends and new, and we hope to see more of you in the weeks to come. We’d like to give a special thank you to Lisa Bralts, the new market manager, for helping us and all the other vendors get off on what looks to be a fantastic season. Now that we’re off to such a great start, we’ll be keeping this blog updated with all kinds of things: new produce we’ll be bringing to the market, new products from other vendors we may be featuring from our kitchen and new ideas we’re always looking to bounce off each other and all of you. So thank you again, Urbana, for a beautiful Saturday morning and we hope to see you all again next week and for the rest of the season.

For all of our friends in Chicago, we can hardly wait to see you all again this Wednesday in Lincoln Park. Look for us on the corner straight south of the info booth, across the paved walk. In addition to our sprouts and baby microgreens, we’re bringing back our full menu of internationally inspired, locally grown vegetarian cuisine including the Quesadilla Verde, Pizza del Mercato, Sunny Crunch Wrap, Breakfast Quesadilla, The Sproutwich and our new Salad du Jour, all featuring our sprouts and/or baby microgreens and other seasonal produce from our own farm and other Green City Vendors. We’ll also have our famous sprouted wheat tortillas for sale by the half dozen, beautiful bunches of chives and fresh wheatgrass juice, pressed to order. Come hungry! It’s going to be an amazing day!