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!
Tuesday's Gone
Tuesday’s gone with the wind…
I tell you, Tuesday’s gone, oh she’s gone with the wind…
(Lynyrd Skynyrd – Tuesday’s Gone)
Yes…Tuesday is just about gone for this week, for this market…so, if you have yet to order, you have until 10pm. Please think about what you may need, and how we can make your life easier AND about how you can easily eat entirely locally, just by using our little market of love…
At this point in the season, the month, I am always drawn back to a point in time, in the very late fall, when I was in high school, and we would all travel out to field parties or park parties or parties in the woods. When lines of cars would travel out to the middle of nowhere and as each car would park, and unload passengers, and stereos or a lot of times even a band because yes, in our big circle of people, we had our own house band of sorts, the fun would begin. The local kids having local fun.
The band was a legend at our high school. In fact, they still gather, at special times to perform. They would perform at dances, parties, there was even a time when downtown buildings, in our town, would rent to them. Epic.
Anyway, at one such outside party, I remember a house deck, the band, and a dedication to your’s truly, with this song. We listened to a lot of Lynyrd Skynyrd, loved the fall season, celebrated the last of the warm evenings before the season would disappear, and basically, just loved what our local surroundings were, back then.
In our own way, we were the local faces of our West End, of our favorite hang out spots, of our town. We were proud of where we came from, of our growing up, and of each other. We had a brotherhood/sisterhood of local love.
I bring with me, now, to this little local market, that same pride, that same local awareness, the same pride in watching this market grow up.
We are here for you, we celebrate you, and we celebrate all that we take from our local surroundings…
We are open until 10pm, talk to me, order, do it all before Tuesday, is in fact, gone…
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam