(Relaxnews) – Health-conscious eaters passing through O’Hare airport in Chicago will be happy to find that a farmers market opened last Thursday. The market offers fresh locally-grown food and other healthy snacks to passengers and airport employees.
US airports have struggled to offer healthy food options to its passengers for a long time, but now the international airport in Chicago is innovating with the opening of a farmers market. The O’Hare farmers market is located in terminal 3, and offers fresh herbs such as basil, cilantro and thyme which are all grown at the airport’s aeroponic garden. Also produced at the airport is the urban honey produced by Sweet Beginnings’ Beeline, harvested from the apia
Chicago airport is not the first tourist venue to grow food for its own consumption. Hotel restaurants are creating rooftop gardens to produce locally grown ingredients for their clients. Such is the case of the Four Season Philadelphia which has four beds of oregano, sage, thyme and rosemary as well as peas and red cabbages.
The Marriott Downtown Magnificient Mile in Chicago grows its own food on the ninth floor of the hotel and creates its own wine in the lobby. The Marriott also houses beehives on its rooftop used in Rooftop Honey Wheat Beer, produced in partnership with a local brewer.
Anthony Paris, the head chef of the restaurant at the Crosby Hotel in New York, harvests his own garden situated on the hotel’s 12th floor. The garden produces melons, blueberries, tomatoes and herbs. The hotel also owns four chickens.