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!
Nobody Knows...
And we set out so long ago
Search the heavens and the Earth below
Nobody knows how to get back home
Through the darkness to the dawn
And when I looked back you were gone
Heard your voice leading me on
Through the darkness to the dawn
Love is deep as the road is long
And moves my feet to carry on
It beats my heart when you are gone
Love is deep as the road is long
Nobody knows how the story ends
Live the day, doing what you can
This is only where it began
Nobody knows how the story ends
Nobody knows how the story ends…
(The Lumineers)
Hello, lovely market customers, and vendors!! I’m here to wish you all a love filled evening, and a happy start to the market week of ordering.
It was so nice to see all of you, today, and this evening. You all bring me so much joy. You all have help to build this market into so much more than I could ever have hoped.
And, we all know that things cannot build without hope, determination, love, peace, communal spirit, compassion, and all of us helping eachother.
If you were a market customer, this week, you would have found a little surprise in your boxes. I gave each of you little starts off of my many succulents, called, Mother Of Thousands. I love that so very much. Just the name resonates love. My thought in passing the starts to all of you, is that you will read the instruction sheet, and let them take root, transplant, grow them with love and patience, and when they are old enough, they will give tiny little plant babies on it’s edges. You can then remove them, and begin to collect them, and maybe pass on to others. You know…a love chain that just keeps going.
I choose this song to open the market, this evening, because it is one of the most lovely songs with lovely lyrics. On this eve, of what will be a very somber day, tomorrow, I felt it said exactly what I hoped to convey.
I will not be posting, tomorrow. The market is open, and I will watch your orders, but for me, tomorrow needs silence, and peaceful thoughts, and love.
As we do, each year, on the eve of 9/11, we all look inwardly, and outwardly. We search our own hearts, and we look at our brotherhood/sisterhood to make sure everyone is ok. Everyone feels love. Everyone feels peace. No sense will ever be made of what happened. But with enough love, we can ease each other. And we need that, now, and always.
So, maybe it was timely to send out the Mother of Thousands to all of you, tonight. Love passing more love on…
Keep the peace, lovelies…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam