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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!
Turn On Your Lovelight!
So, what are you waiting for? I am getting ready to open the market for the week!!
Before I do that, let me just caution you about ordering from here. Only order if you are interested in all things local! Only order if you love knowing that your food is being grown/produced, right here, in your own backyard. Only order if you love the thought of spending your money in our own community. Only order if you love the ease of our market, the ease of the weekly pick up, the fun of being greeted by your market managers, handing you your baskets, bags, or armloads of local goodness…
Only order if this is all important to you!!! If it is not important to you, then…what? How can this NOT be important to you?
Ok…you seasoned, loyal, weekly customers…proceed to the market!! You new, timid, unsure, sort of scared or sort of trying to make that jump into all local, affordable, nutrition, people….well, ok, you move right on along to the market site, too!! There is no time like the now time!! Just do it!!
Our market is opening…and, let me give you all a few heads up on a couple of items that I purchased, from this week’s market.
The new paw paws from Valley View Woodlands…AMAZING…could not quit obsessing about them. Almost custard like. I termed them a tropical crème brulee!! They are so tender, your market managers ate them with spoons, right out of their skin. MUST ORDER.
The triple chocolate gluten-free take and bake cookies from Madison Ling! Popped a cookie sheet full of them, into my oven, the minute I walked in the door, and started dinner…After they cooled, and after I had my steamed brown rice with slow roasted tomatoes from the all organic gardens of Hippie and the Farmer, I sampled one of the cookies…yes, yes, yes!! I cannot express just how delightful these are!!
These are just a FEW of the many items on our market, and only a few of what I purchased!!
You all rocked the market out, this week…let’s do it, again!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam