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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Kerry Cardoza | WBEZ

Why this summer’s best prices on produce might be at your neighborhood farmers’ market

It finally might be Henry Brockman’s year.

As commercial farmers battle record-high fertilizer prices, seed shortages and huge spikes in gas and construction costs, Brockman — who has operated Henry’s Farm, an organic farm in downstate Congerville since 1993 — has been diversifying, rotating 650 crops and using his own methods without store-bought fertilizer.

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