Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 06/29/2015 – 3:34pm Food is a basic human right. And the right to food is different than the right to charity. The theme for the UVM Food Systems Summit in June, which was hosted by the University of Vermont and Vermont Law School was, The Right to Food: Power, […]
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Here’s to a year! Pass the Champaign!
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Mon, 06/22/2015 – 10:16pm I’m coming up fast on one year since I first moved down to Champaign to work for The Land Connection. One year ago, I had recently graduated, and didn’t know what path I wanted to take. I had interned for The Land Connection during my undergrad, […]
It was the dreariest of Sundays, and the chickens ate all of my salad, all of it.
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 06/01/2015 – 7:45am Although I was late planting my garden this year, it was coming along nicely. A perfect spring for lettuce, and kale, and all things green. I was ready to harvest, and was calculating how long it would last, and the dates I would re-plant (hot weather dependent) […]
Mud Between the Toes
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Tue, 05/26/2015 – 10:34am I spent this weekend camping out at a music festival in Chillicothe, IL, just a few miles from Peoria. It doesn’t really seem like the kind of a place a music festival would be held, but thousands of people came for it. It was the first […]
New Markets
Submitted by Bob Porter on Fri, 05/15/2015 – 5:42pm I’m writing this on a Friday, and as of right now we have two Champaign Farmers’ Markets under our belts. And in my case, I mean that literally. We’ve quickly discovered that it’s pretty hard to be surrounded by gorgeous produce and not go buy some. We naturally […]
Run for your life!
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Mon, 05/11/2015 – 2:10pm If you haven’t already, go see the documentary The Greenhorns. There are a lot of films about food and farming out there, but this is one of my favorites. The stories from beginning farmers, in all their struggles and triumphs, are great. However, I was sold […]
