The Traverse City Record-Eagle has a cool feature titled Green Through The White: Year-round produce is becoming a reality that looks at a new trend in food that has to make you smile if you're a lover of fresh & local:

Sustainable greenhouse systems, year-round farmers markets and winter CSA programs are cropping up all over cold, cloudy northern Michigan, extending the short growing season and making it possible for locavores to get their greens — and other veggies — all year long.

One of the first in the region to go year-round, the Frankfort Farmers Market is offering fresh produce, along with honey, maple syrup, meat, eggs and other products, from its new winter site at the city-owned Recreation Center.

Market Master Cindy Lannin said the market at the east end of the waterfront Open Space Park will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday through April before moving back outdoors in May.

"We've had very loyal vendors and very loyal customers," Lannin said. "They just begged us to continue and we started seeing it as a viable option."

Definitely click through to read the rest for more about other Benzie County and area farmers who are going year-round – at the end, you'll get a tasty recipe from Chef Eric Patterson of The Cooks' House for his Classic French Onion Soup Gratinee.

Here's the Frankfort Farmers Market web site!

The photo is Chili & Co. by Andy McFarlane – check out more tasty treats in his Local Food slideshow!