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What you can learn about local food systems by cooking some butternut squash soup

Today on Food Trek: Host Tory Dahlhoff pulls the old food truck out of the garage, airs up the tires, swaps out the fryer grease, fires up the grill, and hits the road with Chef Ryan Smith to cook and chat with the owners of Sous Chef, a small grocery in downtown Peoria where they have written their own recipe for connecting local farmers to the community.

CityLink history calendar focuses on homes in 2022

An annual display of Peoria history is hot off the presses. The 2022 CityLink historical calendar is now available.

Black farmers are disappearing, but a producer from Normal is bucking that trend

This week on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff explores why the number of Black farmers and the amount of farmland owned by Black farmers has dwindled significantly in not just Illinois, but all across the United States over the last century.

How OSF HealthCare added locally sourced oatmeal and granola to the menu

Hospital food is not typically known for being local and organic, nor does it usually inspire the tastebuds. But a pilot project at OSF St. Francis Medical Center aims to change that, one breakfast meal at a time. Food Trek host Tory Dahlhoff has the story.

From the Wheels O' Time Museum in Dunlap: The LeTourneau steel house was a cooperative project involving the Central Illinois Landmarks Foundation, the Peoria Historical Society and Wheels O’ Time. It was moved across town from the factory site to the museum along with a statue of R.G. LeTourneau. The house was extensively refurbished and outfitted with authentic period decor. It is now open to visitors.

All the ways 'The Dean of Earth Moving' left his mark on Caterpillar and Peoria

R.G. LeTourneau was persuaded to come to Peoria in 1935 by the Caterpillar Tractor Co. because he had developed an attachment that moved the blade on the Caterpillar bulldozer.

What we can learn from a cooperatively owned local food hub in Logan County

In Episode 9 of the food and farming series Food Trek, Tory Dahlhoff and co-producer Allison Walsh check in with the Central Illinois FarmFED Cooperative in Mount Pulaski, in Logan County.

In reality, regenerative farming has been practiced in this country for many hundreds of years, by many indigenous cultures, long before the wave of Western industrial agriculture. Ever heard of Three Sisters Crops? If not, you should look it up and try it in your garden.

Rediscovering the definition of regenerative agriculture

Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff searches out the real definition of farming's biggest buzz word of the last few years: regenerative agriculture. Where did the term come from, and what does it really mean?

How the natural history of central Illinois could bring farms into the future

Today on Food Trek, host Tory Dahlhoff explores how a diverse tallgrass prairie was transformed into a landscape now dominated by monoculture crops. How did a biodiverse prairie that excelled at storing carbon turn into farmland that contributes to climate change?

Peoria's Monica Hendrickson on how the public's understanding of public health has changed

In this second episode of WCBU's podcast Broad Expressions, host Becky Doubleday talks to Monica Hendrickson, the administrator of the Peoria City/County Health Department.

Heart of Illinois United Way President Jennifer Zammuto.

How Jennifer Zammuto addresses the root causes of Peoria's most pressing issues

In this debut episode of WCBU's new podcast Broad Expressions, host Becky Doubleday talks to Heart of Illinois United Way President Jennifer Zammuto.

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