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Jim Slama remembers the food landscape in Chicago in the '90s and early 2000s as rather bleak. "Back then it was nearly an organic food desert," he says. Even access to non-organic fresh fruits and vegetables could be limited. But things slowly started shifting, and today, Jim and his nonprofit, FamilyFarmed, are making a difference in Chicago by building relationships between local, organic farmers and area distributors, restaurants and supermarkets to make the Good Food Movement accessible to more and more people every year.
Jim Slama remembers the food landscape in Chicago in the '90s and early 2000s as rather bleak. "Back then it was nearly an organic food desert," he says. Even access to non-organic fresh fruits and vegetables could be limited. But things slowly started shifting, and today, Jim and his nonprofit, FamilyFarmed, are making a difference in Chicago by building relationships between local, organic farmers and area distributors, restaurants and supermarkets to make the Good Food Movement accessible to more and more people every year.