Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 09/19/2016 – 4:53pm The tomato and cucumber vines have started to wither, the eggplants seem to be frozen in time (they have stopped growing altogether) and the fall crop of greens that came up so beautifully, now looks like freshly mowed grass (thanks, bunny), but the pace suddenly seems […]
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We challenge you to eat local (and we’re working hard to make eating local less of a challenge)
Submitted by sarah@thelandco… on Mon, 09/12/2016 – 5:12pm School’s back in session, the temperatures are slowly started to dip, and people will not shut up about pumpkin spice everything. Fall is tiptoeing into our lives, and I for one am very excited. Fall has always been my favorite season–I love the crisp air, the leaves […]
Matt’s Wild Cherry, and other things that seemed like a good idea in February
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Fri, 08/12/2016 – 7:09am Back in February when I was sitting at the dining room table with my seed catalogs, I was planning big. I had decided that I would go all out in the garden this year, and that my big crop would be tomatoes. Seduced by all the […]
Why do I Love My Market?
Submitted by sarah@thelandco… on Mon, 08/08/2016 – 2:41pm We’re at the halfway point of our second season at the Champaign Farmers’ Market, and it feels like a fitting time to reflect on the question at the heart of National Farmers’ Market Week celebrations: why do I love my market? The job of a market manager […]
Tips for Farmers’ Market Meal Planning
Submitted by Cassie Carroll on Tue, 08/02/2016 – 12:32am I, for one, know how a busy week can quickly run away from you. Next thing you know – BLINK! It’s Sunday again. You ask yourself, ” I had SO many plans… what happened to the week?” That’s me. If I’m not focused on the few things […]
Hopeful at the End
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 07/26/2016 – 6:29am In under a week, I leave the Midwest, and I’ll do so feeling hopeful. Despite a frightening political landscape and the frequent dread of checking the morning news, my time here has taught me that our hope should rest first in the people around us and […]