Local food doesn't have to be fussy, and this farmers market pizza recipe proves it. Simply pick up your favorite local ingredients from the farmers market, throw them on a pizza crust with cheese and sauce, and BAM, you've got dinner. Luckily, we have a cottage food vendor at our farmers market that makes pizza dough at the Old Capitol Farmer Market, but if you can't find dough at your market, just shop you co-op or local food grocery! And if you've got kiddos, or perhaps a

A couple years ago when Blue Apron and Sun Basket and all of the meal kit services were hitting the Market, Buy Fresh Buy Local teamed up with Chef Ryan Lewis to see if we could make a local meal kit. The concept was the same: pre-portion everything, include a recipe, and make it all as simple as possible-- but we sourced as many ingredients as we could from farmers at the Old Capitol Farmers Market in Springfield, highlighted the farmers on the recipe cards, and sold the kit

I have this weird brain thing going on where I associate months and colors. December is green like pine forests, August is red like tomatoes, October is orange like pumpkins, and September is yellow, Yellow like the last warm rays of summer. Yellow like sweet corn, like summer squash, like peaches, and yellow peppers. Yellow just like this punchy little succotash and ribs recipe made of almost entirely produce and protein you can find at your farmers market. The recipe is eno