Ideal Bite

Want a new way to advance kids' learning about where food comes from? Change of engagement: Check out the free Edible Garden in the Lincoln Park Zoo. The Green City Market keeps this 5,000-square-foot plot chock-full of organic vegetables, including spinach, beets, and carrots - all ripe for picking. Stay for as long as you want (and note: the school groups are gone, so fewer crowds), and help volunteers plant and harvest - they'll give you tools and know-how, plus a coupla tasty veggies to take home...and thrust into dinner.