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!
Long Strange Trip
Sometimes the lights all shining on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me
What a long strange trip it’s been…
(Truckin’-written by Grateful Dead lyricist, Robert Hunter. Performed by The Grateful Dead)
Well, here we are…Sunday, kicking off my birthday week, the market orders are booming, and, I’m sitting with coffee, thinking back over the past 12 years, the baking, the soup making, the restaurants who have featured me, the shop fronts I’ve had, the everyday hustle, the catering….it’s all there, mixed in with my little clothing business…the technicolor hippie clothing, mixed with pieces of vintage. It’s all there. All on the road map of my life. Ups, downs, triumphs, failures, a million farmers markets, a trail of friendships made along the way.
The long strange trip of it all. Much like this market moving into it’s 10th year in operation. Talk about a long strange trip!! We’ve come so far, the journey was been interesting, to say the least, and here we all are. Still going strong, still the little market that could, because we all refused to ever give up on it.
It’s Sunday, and since I am now back from vacation, I am throwing out another Cosmic trivia question of the week!! It’s a two part question, for two separate winners!! REMEMBER…you must be an ordering customer to be able to win!!
Here we go…which local eatery first featured my Cosmic Soups? And, which of my soups was the first to debut, there? It’s still a soup that is my most requested, and still on heavy rotation in my weekly soup set lists…
There you go…and, while you are thinking of answers, don’t forget to get market orders in!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam