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!
Same In Any Language
He said everything wordlessly…
Wanderlust in my eyes, he did see…
Oh yea…
(Same In Any Language-My Morning Jacket/Ruckus)From the movie, Elizabethtown…
So, you all know that your market manager, the Hippie Bakestress spends her mornings, and nights, baking. Manages markets, operates her downtown shop, serves on the local foods council, vends markets/events/festivals, spends the early part of her summers helping with Art Affair On The Square, and, most recently, helped kick off the newest business venture, Hippie and the Farmer, LLC. So, after yesterday’s market in Springfield, on the flip side of Thursday’s crazy night market down at the Springfield Farmers Market, it was no surprise that a decompressing day was in order.
I went into hiding with blankets and pillows, closed the world out, and lost myself in two of my all time favorite flicks. Almost Famous and Elizabethtown.
Elizabethtown is one of the most underrated movies, ever. But, it always speaks to me, from a time before I was the Hippie Bakestress. From a time that one girl, drove cross country, from California to North Carolina, not only for transferring to a new city as a flight attendant, (Claire is a flight attendant in the movie), but also this girl needed to take a soul journey. Finding myself, knowing myself, getting ready to take on yet another city, all needed me to just be at one with me, my car, a ton of road maps, a box of mixed tapes, and only myself for company. Drew was on the same soul quest as he took off with his dad’s ashes, in the movie.
Soul journeys…everyone needs them. I am glad that my soul journey was before Suri, before ITunes, before cell phones. I had to get lost, many, many times, on that journey. I got to watch the sunrises, and sunsets in many different settings. It was one cassette tape after another. Just the girl, her thoughts, her music, and her drive across the country, to finally meet herself, along the way.
I run my businesses in much the same way…each business is it’s own soul journey. My breads, the clothing, the Hippie of Hippie and the Farmer, the lifestyle…it all started, long, long ago on that soul searching drive.
If you ever get the time, watch the movie. Or, put the soundtrack on as your backdrop music. However you need to take your own soul journey, I strongly suggest it.
Just like this market, as it soul vibes along it’s way, each and every week. The vendors, the customers, we all have pieces and parts of our souls in this market.
Last week, I had the chance to speak about our little local market of love in an informal meeting. And, the thing that struck me, inside, as I was listening to myself speak, was how much of my soul goes into this one market. My pride, my pleasure, my weekly chance to bring you all to find that small soul in all that we have to offer, to give you, to nourish you…
Soul searching…it will take you wherever it is you desire…
We have many amazing items on the market, many new seasonal items that you need to grab before they go out of season.
Take a look, place your order, make it your small little soul journey, this week…
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam