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!
Morning Song
Cause even though I know there’s hope in
Every morning song
I have to find that melody alone…
(The Avett Brothers)
One of my favorite lyrics, and easy Sunday morning music…
I love Sundays because I can take the day, all to myself, and either get lost in nothingness, regroup for the coming week of another crazy market week of bringing local to the masses, recharging from being ‘on’, all week, or I can organize my life so that when I step back into the trenches, on Tuesdays, I am not a chaotic mess.
This week was an emotional one, for me. Nothing bad. All very good, in fact, but even good emotional weeks will bring me to tear up, and have a good cry, and embrace all that is around me. Our market is now family to so many customers, and your emails, and texts, and then the loveliest of donations, to our market this weekend, have had me all an emotional mess.
The loveliness side of the pandemic is what I have been a part of. And, I don’t mean to imply that there is a lovely side, but being able to see all of your smiling faces, knowing that we are sending you on your way with local love, local goodness, well… it moves me, it grooves me, and I hope that all of you, the customers, market family in both customers, and vendors, can feel that lovely bond that has happened.
Here’s to Sunday, babes…find your melody…
One more lovely thought…next Sunday is Mother’s Day. I know that we cannot celebrate in the way we all normally would, but think about things from the market, to brighten her day. Even gift her with a box of lovely foods for her week…
And…we have a new vendor, Doug Hall, of the Airport Café. He brings us his homegrown rhubarb, and he is going to offer a few pies that are not already being offered by our other pie bakers…
The local network…the real morning song.
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam