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!
Blowin' In The Wind
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind…
The answer is blowin’ in the wind…
(Blowin’ In The Wind-Bob Dylan)
I am in a soul searching, Bob Dylan crooning kind of evening state of mind, tonight…
We are early into the month of December, but this is the time of the year that your market manager begins to look back on the year, look back at the paths and directions that I have taken. I put so much into my everyday life, the people that make up my circle, my businesses, this market, you, the market customers, and everyone who I have encountered along the way.
Each year, I begin to form the theme for the year to come. I have decided on my first theme for the coming year, but after listening to this song, tonight, over and over, brings me to my other theme of the coming year. The answer, always, always, is out there, blowing in the wind.
The coming year will usher in many changes in my life. And, instead of worry or doubt or fear, I am looking to the answers that will come to me, in the wind, in a sign, in just throwing all caution to the wind, and letting the chips fall where they may.
This market always is my anchor in a sea of questions. I love this market, deeper than you all can know. I believe in it, I believe in you, and I believe that our mission is still on a winding path. Some weeks, our path seems so straight forward, and solid. Some weeks, we get thrown a curve ball, that sends us asking a million questions. But, even on those weeks, I know that the answer to anything that market gets thrown, is just to keep searching, keep the faith, and know that we are loved, that our market continues it’s quiet chug down the tracks, and that you, the customers and vendors, are the answers that always exist at this little market of love…
So, tonight, I open the market for the week!! Get your shopping lists, your grocery lists, your to do lists ready!! Our market is all about making your life easier, while putting that local flair to it all…
Go ahead…find your answers, and then find your way to us…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam