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!
Have A Little Faith In Me
You know time, time is our friend…
Have a little faith in me…
(Joe Cocker – Have A Little Faith In Me)
Well, have faith in this market, have faith that we strive to continue to bring you the best of the best, and have faith that this little local market of love continues to grow, build, add, and groove into what is going on it’s fourth year in operation!!
Yes, that’s right…we continue with the original vision, the original hope, and the original growth plan!! Your three market managers, myself, Mark, and Charlene, have been a part of this market since before it even opened it’s doors. We are some of your original vendors. We began volunteering with the market in the late spring and early summer of that first year. The three of us were the among the first faces that helped run the onsite location. We then stepped into what would become the management team both onsite, and behind the scenes, that you have grown to know and love!! We watched the market begin with the bare bones of a working market. Each year, we watched the numbers of customers, vendors, sales, all climb. We became a solid market. We became a permanent fixture at the YMCA. We got shiny new equipment. We have become a community name. We are now the market umbrella that encompasses all area farmers markets.
We are the faces, the vendors, the products that you put your faith in, each week. You are the faces, the customers, the sales, that we have faith in seeing, each week.
It took all of us…the circle that makes up this community, the circle that is this little local market of love…to make us the little powerhouse that we are, today!!
Have a little faith? Yes…it’s what this market was built on.
It’s Tuesday…the market will close, tonight, at 10pm! Get your orders in!! Don’t forget to take advantage of the short season that is asparagus!! Beth, of Harrigan’s Harvest emailed me that her crop is crazy growing and over the sad freeze of last week!!
Make me happy, show me that faith, place your orders…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam