Swiss chard from Growing Home, at the Green City Market in the Peggy Notebaert Museum, photographed Saturday, April 21, 2012, in Chicago. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times
Asparagus from King's Hill Farm at Green City Market. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times
French breakfast radish from Growing Home at Green City Market in Chicago. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times Media
Spring onions from Nichols Farm and Orchard at Green City Market in the Peggy Notebaert Museum, photographed Saturday, April 21, 2012, in Chicago. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times
French breakfast radish from Growing Home at Green City Market in the Peggy Notebaert Museum, photographed Saturday, April 21, 2012, in Chicago. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times
Mixed baby lettuce from Nichols Farm and Orchard, at Green City Market in the Peggy Notebaert Museum, photographed Saturday, April 21, 2012, in Chicago. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times
Mixed baby lettuce from Nichols Farm and Orchard, of Marengo, Ill. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times Media
Spring onions from Nichols Farm and Orchard at Green City Market in the Peggy Notebaert Museum, photographed Saturday, April 21, 2012, in Chicago. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times
Spring onions from Nichols Farm and Orchard at Green City Market in the Peggy Notebaert Museum, photographed Saturday, April 21, 2012, in Chicago. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times
The Green City Market at the Peggy Notebaert Museum. | John J. Kim~Sun-Times Media
When you go to the farmers market this spring and summer, if what’s for sale is different from what you expect, blame this season’s wacky weather. “Mother Nature has not cooperated,” says Paul Thelen of Hillside Orchards in Berrien Springs, Mich., who sells fruit at …
