Submitted by Jeff Hake on Mon, 07/27/2015 – 4:30pm This blog post is guest-written by Clay Yapp, a Wisconsin native who is the farmer for Sola Gratia Farm in Urbana, IL. He will be leading both our Custom Tool Fabrication and Shiitake Production workshops. You can read more of his writing over at his blog, […]
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Show Your Farmer Some Love
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 07/27/2015 – 11:59am Next week (August 2-8) is National Farmers’ Market Week, and we want to #CUatthemarkets! Please join Urbana’s Market at the Square and The Land Connection’s Champaign Farmers’ Market in supporting the farmers who work so hard to grow fresh, healthy, local foods for our community. This […]
Un Beau Jour au Marché
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Mon, 07/20/2015 – 4:33pm As you may know… last week was Bastille Day! And we had a celebration at the Champaign Farmers’ Market. We decided to celebrate the French, and all of their cultural and culinary insights. And were only a bit silly about it. There was French food, like […]
Touring the Markets, Eating the Hashbrowns
Submitted by Bob Porter on Mon, 07/13/2015 – 4:02pm Part of my job involves talking to the public about The Land Connection’s training programs. More specifically, it means talking to farmers or people who want to get into farming. But where do I find these farmers, short of driving aimlessly along county roads looking for people […]
This land is our land
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 07/07/2015 – 7:53am “How do I get on some land?” It’s probably the question I hear most often from beginning farmers. It’s also among the most daunting. Americans are increasingly looking to farming as a viable career option, but land ownership is concentrating into fewer and fewer hands. Those […]
Food is a basic human right. And the right to food is different than the right to charity.
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, […]
