Submitted by Jeff Hake on Fri, 08/08/2014 – 2:18pm Last year, I wrote a list of all the things a farmer must be. Zoologist, gourmand, mechanic, accountant, salesperson, naturalist, executive, and lumberjack were just a few items on the list, but I keep coming across more. This past winter, a speaker at a conference added […]
Happy National Farmers’ Market Week!
Submitted by Magdalena Casper on Mon, 08/04/2014 – 3:43pm August 2nd through 9th marks National Farmers’ Market week! Surely you’ve seen the new stamps, decorated with the sort of bounty one might find in late summer or early autumn in central Illinois. And with close to 350 markets just in Illinois, there is NO excuse […]
A Midsummer Afternoon’s Reflection
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Tue, 07/29/2014 – 12:58pm As I passed the one-year anniversary of stepping into the role of executive director of The Land Connection, I stopped for a moment, while eating a bowl of perfectly ripe juicy tomatoes from my garden, to think about what we had been up to for the […]
Humans of the Farmers Market
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Tue, 07/22/2014 – 10:36am This week, at the Urbana farmers’ market, Jeff and Stephanie explored a new method of getting to know their fellow market-goers. Modeled after the ever-growing blog Humans of New York, the two interviewed the reluctant but willing patrons that stopped by The Land Connection table. “What […]
Pissing in the Cistern
Submitted by Terra Brockman on Sun, 07/20/2014 – 11:02pm We need food in order to live. And we need what food needs in order for it to live: soil, water, sunshine, air, and an entire interconnected web of life. Maybe it’s because of what my parents named me, or maybe it’s because I talk with […]
How I Learned to Slow Down and Love Local, Organic Food
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Wed, 07/09/2014 – 3:15pm I didn’t grow up eating organic foods. I never went to the farmers markets near me or pick vegetables from my garden. I wasn’t a part of a co-op; I didn’t even know what a CSA was for most of my life. I was what I […]
