Chicagoland Resources
- Chicago Restaurant List: short list of local fare restaurants in Chicago
- Chicago Chicken Enthusiasts: Everything you want to know about raising your own chickens.
- Door to Door Organics: organic produce and natural foods delivered to your door! You can customize your box as you like!
- Duke's Ale House: Restaurant in Crystal Lake, IL. Local food, farm fresh take on traditional bar food. Classes and events.
- Eat Like the Pros: an organic meal delivery service for elite and professional athletes, busy parents, weekend warriors and health conscious individuals.
- Elawa Farm Garden: Not-for-profit organization involved in the restoration and renewal of Elawa Farm. Volunteer, visit the gardens, shop at the garden market (Tues, Fri, Sat). Tamara volunteers here weekly.
- Local Beet's 2013 Chicago CSA Guide: List of 90+ CSA programs available in the Chicagoland area.
- Murphy's Health Food Store: Fully stocked health foods and juice bar in Libertyville, IL.
- Nick's Sticks: Snack sticks made with 100% grass fed beef or free range turkey. No additives, preservatives, msg, fillers, or artificial colors/flavors. From Nick Wallace of Wallace Farms.
- Prairie Grass Cafe: Seasonal and farm fresh food. Delightful restaurant for lunch and dinner. Northbrook, IL
- Sandhill Organics: Tamara's current CSA program. Farm located in Grayslake, IL. CSA Program for vegetables, fruit and eggs. Pickup locations throughout Chicago area.
- SportFuel: An integrative nutrition consulting company working with elite and professional athletes.
- Synergy Fitness and Sports: Personal Trainers, Vladimir Curguz and John McNulty. ARP Wave therapy. Good food isn't the only component of staying healthy (although it is the most important). Physical fitness is important too. Tamara has been training at Synergy for over 10 years.
- Thankful Harvest: Organic, 100% grass fed beef and organic soy free eggs DELIVERED to your home in the Chicagoland area.
- Traders Point Creamery: small organic dairy farm. Milk, cheese, yogurt etc are available throughout the midwest
- Wallace Farms: Tamara's choice for almost all of her meat. She bought a garage freezer to hold all of her Wallace Farms goodies! Organically raised grass fed beef and lamb, pastured turkeys, organic/pastured chickens, fresh air pork. Pickup locations throughout Chicago area. They even have a warehouse in Naperville.
- Weston A. Price Chicago Chapter: a variety of resources for the Chicago area…eggs, CSAs, great resource for those in Chicago!