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!
I've Got A New Attitude!
I’m feelin’ good from my head to my shoes
Know where I’m goin’ and I know what to do
I tidied up my point of view
I got a new attitude
(New Attitude-Patti LaBelle)
Just visiting some of my attitude music of the 1980s! Because one of my passions is 80s club music, from back when I was making the scene.
This thought is going hand in hand with a recent blurb that I read on a social media site…
“Today, I abandon my old habits, and take up new, more positive habits…”
After I read this, I immediately reflected back to this song, and, of course, to this little market of love.
Why not pick now, this new month, to make positive changes in your diet, your life, your overall being…get a new attitude.
Tonight, I worked the market, alone, and was able to chat with so many people who stopped to talk, customers picking up their orders, and Y staff members. I was so blown away by their attitudes, their overwhelming sense of self, of what they were consuming, of their new attitude toward what our market offers, and how it can all work, hand in hand, with this whole new attitude.
We’ve been around for quite awhile, we adhere to our old mission, our old way of thinking, eating, acting, but yet, it seems to finally be catching on, taking shape, people so thankful for what we are doing, providing, living.
So, my thoughts turned to this. If so many people are jumping on this bandwagon, why not making it a whole across the board, across the market kind of jumping on? Why not get a new attitude? Drop the old habits while moving to the positive habits?
Look at us as the positive, new attitude habits, and jump on board…get your groove on!
The market is now open…let’s do this!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam