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!
Good Vibrations!
I, I love the colorful clothes she wears..
And on the way this sunlight plays upon her hair…
I hear the sound of a gentle word…
On the wind that lifts her perfume through the air…
I’m pickin’ up good vibrations..
(Beach Boys – Good Vibrations)
So, this market is ALL about the good vibrations!! The vendors, the customers, the sales, the YMCA…we all just vibe really well, and it totally shows!!
Yesterday, a friend of mine, who has been a friend of mine forever, Bill, posed a question to all of his music crazed friends, on Facebook. He asked, if we looked back in the history of rock and roll, what would we change on the face of that history. It has been so interesting reading the responses!
Anyway, the main vibe from that whole conversation was that we all have a music vibe, or a whatever vibe. There is something, in all of us, that stirs a passion, that makes us ecstatic, that opens us up and takes us on a new journey.
This song, Good Vibrations, just spoke to me, this evening, after closing the market. To some, The Beach Boys are all powdery, sugar sweet, Top 40. But, if you listen to very early Beach Boys, you find a different tone, like they had hoped to go down one path of music before they got packaged into the mainstream.
Good vibrations…we all have them, we all get them from whatever moves us, drives us, we all have different meanings, like in music tastes, but we all end up at the same point.
Good vibrations…the market, the season, the people…we all work on it, together, for the best vibes around!
This little local market gets it’s good vibrations, weekly. This week, as I open the market, I am excited to bring you a new vendor!!
Volk Fruit Farm!!!! Amazing and delicious fall apples!!!! They are a local fruit farm, they supply Dorothy Lane Market, and tonight, we welcome them to our market!!!
Apples, Autumn, Amazing market of all vendors, this little local market of love….Good Vibrations!
Have an amazing week, get to know our market, our vendors, and start your own good vibrations!
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam