Jodie Wiederkehr is a local hero who worked tirelessly to get horse carriages banned in downtown Chicago, and seeks to extend this beyond Illinois. As romantic as it is to see a horse clopping around, they’re scared as hell in downtown Chicago traffic, and often get mistreated or hurt. It’s stressful to be a horse…

Fancy Plants has catered a clown party once (seriously), a resort in Big Sur, Miyoko’s birthday, even a Burning Man camp in the desert, but we’ve shockingly never actually thrown our own Halloween dinner. We almost catered on the moon once (no we didn’t). We don’t want to serve you witch brains or jello eyes,…

Fancy Plants Kitchen is our new farm to table vegan restaurant at 1443 Fullerton Ave in Chicago.We’re a collaborative team of cooks led by Kevin Schuder (founding chef of Fancy Plants Catering, Fancy Plants Cafe, SuperNatural Foods, etc.) Our friend Ben sources wonderful local produce for us, so it’s not unusual for us to change…