Here it is, folks. Another collection of links that I’ve complied over the past week or so.

No time to ready my witty and enlightening commentary? Here’s a list of the sites I’m talking about today:

Green City Market
Growing Home
Bleeding Heart Bakery
Oz Park
Oyin Homemade

Every Saturday morning, Josh, Jude, and I get up early and head down to the Green City Market. This place is really great. Not only can you find fresh fruit and vegetables here, but you can also get fresh flowers and herbs, free-range and organic eggs, and raw milk and cheese. Oh! And don’t forget the scones!

We always go to Growing Home’s stand first when we get to the market. We try to buy as much as we can from their stand because both Josh and I really like what it is their farm aims to do. From their website:

“Growing Home provides job training for homeless and low-income individuals in Chicago through a social enterprise business based on organic agriculture.”

I know I’ve mentioned it a few times over the past week or so, but the Bleeding Heart Bakery is simply the awesomest bakery ever. I have yet to visit the actual bakery site, but as I’ve mentioned three or four times before, Jude and I visit their stand at the Green City Market on a weekly (sometimes bi-weekly) basis.

Oz Park plays host to our playground of choice here in the Windy City. Jude LOVES climbing up the slides and running around barefoot on the rubber ground at Oz Park (the soft ground makes for a few less bruises, and trust me, we need that).

Finally, Oyin Handmade. I heard about this company on the Mothering forums I frequent. I haven’t tried any of their products yet, but my birthday is November 6th, so who knows! I’m really interested to try Oyin’s Grand ‘Poo Bar, their Funk Butter, and their Head-to-toe Honey Wash.