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!
Kozmic Blues
I wanna talk about a little bit of loving, yeah…
(Kozmic Blues-Janice Joplin)
So, your market manager, Cosmic Pam, does not have the blues, but I am having a Janice/Bob Dylan kind of listening morning, and this one lyric stood out from Janice’s song, that summed up my feeling for this market, the customers, the vendors, the promotions that go on, behind the scenes, and when I am out and about.
Our market is fast approaching our third anniversary!!! Three years of being open to the public. Three years that have been emotional, hard work, thinking only to rethink, planning, executing…it’s been a crazy, crazy ride but look at how far we have come!
With each market, I am blown away, by the growth, the support, the smiling customer faces, the very close, and hard working vendors that we have onboard, and by the all around love that this little market receives from the community, and beyond.
We have made our name known in just three years. We have picked up a huge momentum in this past year, and your market managers plan to take this little market of love, even further in the next year.
Let’s all show some love, this week, and get those orders in!! Vendors and customers, together, make this market work. We fall under the YMCA, helping us with all things administrative…we are a core group moving into this next phase.
The market exists through all of us and all of our orders…let’s all do our part!
Have a lovely Sunday…
Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam