The Weblog
The local foods movement is alive and well in Champaign County! Here are some updates on other projects while we finalize our virtual market:
Local Producers Map:
Our local producers map is ready for publication and you will soon be able to find it on gochampaign.com. Copies will be distributed around the community, in the local telephone book, and other “hangouts”. The guide lists the location and contact information for nearly 50 local producers within our county. The map was a project of the Local Food Council and printed with the help of some local sponsors including the Monument Square District, Champaign Bank, the Community Improvement Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau and others. It is a great start to finding a local source for Champaign County’s finest!
Golden Road of Unlimited Devotion
Well everybody’s dancin’ in a ring around the sun
Nobody’s finished, we ain’t even begun.
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat.
Try on your wings and find our where it’s at.
(Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion-The Grateful Dead)
Well, the sun and the heat feel like it’s early July, but the calendar and the early dark evening tell us it’s pushing right on with September.
September…the month of endings and beginnings. The golden opportunity month, I like to call it. The glittery gold ways that feel good when you are basking in them.
It’s the end of the physical farmers’ markets, it’s the end of festival season, and it’s the beginning of the beauty and tranquility that come with the changing of the seasons, the changing of the weather, the changing of the color scheme.
I open the market, this week, with nothing but beginnings in mind. The hot summer, the hard growing season, it’s all almost behind us. What we have to look forward to is the bounty of the fall season, a year round market that brings you the best of the best, and a chance to buy, spend, and support local products!!
Let us be your Golden Road of Unlimited Devotion…let us be your colorful path to all things local. Let us help you dance around a ring of rock stars of local…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam