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!



 
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What’s The Story, Morning Glory?


Rise and shine, little local market of love customers!!

It’s been an emotional week for your market manager as I said goodbye to my daughter, who left on her next life adventure, this morning!

It also found me losing one of my original Cosmic customers, a sweet, sweet man, who lost his somewhat short battle with cancer…

It also found me reminiscing with my old college roommate over the exact date, yesterday, two years ago, when an auto accident changed their lives, forever, and the journey they have been on in those two years, never giving up, and pushing Elliot, in different cities, hospitals, experimental procedures.

All of this centers around time…the time we think we have, the time we are always trying to make more of.

This market, over all of these years, has been a work in progress, a labor of love, and the success of letting it’s own time take control, as it has unfolded, made customers, our families, and given us the love from community support.

Why not put a little of that love into your week, each week, and let us help you, along the way…

Time marches on, just like this market…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam