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!
The Distance
He’s going the distance…
He’s going for speed…
(Cake-The Distance)
It’s a Monday…dreary, damp, not too cold, a holiday, a day of pondering, a day of remembering.
I know that I am taking the day to re-groove. Re-organize. Re-charge. Re-plan. Basically, I am gearing up for going the distance. In everything that I do.
Also, the theme that I would love to see for the market, this week. Let’s go the distance! Let’s order! We are being given a week that is going to be mild in temperature, weather, and winds. You could actually place your orders, today and tomorrow, without the fear of being able to make it to the Thursday pick up!! No snow, no ice, no below freezing temps, no winds that will blow you out of the stratosphere.
So, yeah, okay…let’s get this order groove moving right along!!
You know what we’ve got, you know what you need. Give it to us! It’s so easy, and you know we love to take those orders and run with them!!
Customers, vendors, go ahead…go the distance!! And, hey, let your furry friends have a say, too. If they could type, I am sure they would be ordering up their own treats from this little market of love!!
So, right now, I am blasting the group, Cake. Retro, cool, funk, groove. Go ahead, find them, play them, dance the day away. I am also diffusing oils. Oils that I get from this market! I have a fridge full of 20 different dinners, all prepared, yesterday, because me life is totally busy, and the last thing I want to do, when I am pouring my glass of wine, is to figure out what I want to eat. All that food for my marathon cooking? From this market!
I have a candle that I love to light, each evening when I arrive home. Candle is made and purchased from…drumroll…this market!
I just did a quick clean up of each room of my house. I just put bars of soap in some of the soap dishes with soap…bam! Ordered from this market!!
I am about to go on a soup making frenzy using herbs that I dried from the summer season. Herbs purchased from this very market! You can now purchase the dried herbs on this market!!
My pantry has a stash of garlic…c’mon, you know where I am going…I’m going the distance…dance it out…this market!!
So, my plea…find music that grooves you!! Crank it up, full on…start some sweet dance moves, rev it up, shake those hips, put some shoulder grooviness into it…and, then…start the Little Local Market Of Love dance…sit, order, imagine the ease, imagine the health benefits, imagine the affordability…and order.
Then, with each order, I want to hear what song motivated you while you ordered!!
Then, on tomorrow’s Weblog, I will publish the customers, and what song grooved them…oo la la…what a bunch of fun!
Cue the music, order, shut it down, go the distance…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam