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, […]
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Diversification in Planting and Business Planning
Submitted by Bob Porter on Mon, 06/15/2015 – 9:35am I was at the Illinois Horticultural Field Day in Granville, Illinois last week. This is a yearly event attended mainly by people working in fruit and vegetable production from all over the state of Illinois. I had a chance to talk about the workshops The Land Connection offers on […]
Adding value to the bushel: why Michael Adsit came to our agritourism workshop
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 06/09/2015 – 9:51am Our tour stop at The Great Pumpkin Patch last summer. Join us for this year’s Agritourism Workshop! Last June, we held a training on agritourism to help farmers understand how to invite the public onto their farms. It was a great three days of speakers, tours, […]
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 […]
