Evanston Woman Connects Family Farms with Restaurants, Schools

Sustainable diners take note: An Evanston woman has created a company that helps connect restaurants in search of local ingredients with the farmers who grow them.

Linda Mallers founded FarmLogix six months ago. The service allows restaurants and schools to order the produce they want from one place instead of having to search farm by farm, according to an article in Crain’s Chicago Business. FarmLogix uses a network of 300 small farms within 250 miles of Chicago and has already signed up 200 restaurants and 1,000 schools, Mallers says in the article.

Shoppers can order everything from bok choy to rutabagas, bison to fish on the FarmLogix website. The company’s philosophy, according to the site, “is to create commercial sale opportunities for family farms of all sizes while making local sourcing for chefs as easy as sourcing conventional." 

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