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!
Tapestry
My life has been a tapestry
Of rich and royal hue
An everlasting vision
Of the ever-changing view
A wond’rous woven magic
In bits of blue and gold
A tapestry to feel and see
Impossible to hold…
(Carole King)
Good morning on this bit of a dreary Monday morning, local market lovely customers! I hope that the weekend was kind to you, and you are ready to face the week with us, and the market!
At Thursday’s pick up, as I was loading a customer’s trunk with market orders, I could hear that they were playing Carole King, and ever since, I’ve been revisiting my love of her, her music, and the lovely lyrics to this song.
Life is a tapestry for us all. If we all painted, and pieced together all of the colorful mosaics of our lives, what a rich tapestry each of us would have. Every color, every design, every thought provoking inch of our tapestries would offer such an amazing look into all of the roads we have travelled.
I feel like this market would have such a unique tapestry with all of the different customers, vendors, products, the paths that the market has taken…a lovely little local tapestry of market love.
Today is Monday, and you are really showing the market so much love! You have until tomorrow evening to get your orders in! The market will close at 8pm, tomorrow night!!
Take on the day, painting it in vivid and rich colors…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam