Join The Land Connection on Thursday, August 22, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at PrairiErth Farm in Atlanta, IL for our workshop on Farm Workplace Safety. Farming is strenuous work. Working in the fields, washing and packing up produce, transporting it to wholesale and retail outlets. All of these activities present different stresses for […]
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Champaign Farmers Market Now Offers WIC & Senior FMNP Match Vouchers
Starting July 23, The Land Connection and Champaign Farmers Market will offer a limited number of triple match voucher booklets for WIC and Senior FMNP recipients. Community members that receive farmers market vouchers as part of the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program and the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (Senior FMNP) can bring their […]
Supporting Wildlife While Farming
Often times when we think of farms we think of pastures, row crops, barns, and fresh produce. Many people don’t think of the wildlife that lives on and around the farmed land. How does the wildlife interact with the farmland and the crops being grown or animals being raised? In what ways are different species […]
3rd Annual Midwest Mechanical Weed Control Field Day comes to Wisconsin!
Guest post by Sam Hitchcock Tilton A full day of exhibits, demonstrations, farmers and industry experts for both vegetables and row-crops It’s that time of year when the farm is humming at a fevered pitch, and the beauty of the fields and one’s love of them can get obstructed by the haze of exhaustion. But […]
Meet The Land Connection’s Summer Interns
This summer, The Land Connection and the Champaign Farmers Market are fortunate to be working with two young women who are part of the Youth Employment Services (YES) Program here in Champaign. Alysia is working with Taidghin O’Brien as the Outreach Intern and Shayrea is working with Rey Dalitto as the Farmers Market Intern. Both […]
The Land Connection Receives Funding from the UNFI Foundation and United Way of Champaign County
The Land Connection is pleased to announce we have received funding from the UNFI Foundation and United Way of Champaign County. Funding will support the Champaign Farmers Market through 2020 and help us support food access programs during the winter months. The UNFI Foundation is providing funding to enable the Champaign Farmers Market to build […]
