Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 03/28/2016 – 7:47am Last week I traveled up to Chicago to go to the Good Food Festival. The gathering brought together policy makers, educators, food entrepreneurs, and farmers, just to name a few. There was a floor full of exhibitors with foods to taste, demos–like how to make your […]
Cara Cummings
Immature is a Good Thing Sometimes
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Tue, 04/07/2015 – 11:10am For the first time this year, my garden is matching my April personality–slightly immature. After a long cold winter, spring fever hits me hard, and I will admit to not acting my age sometimes. Which is why I was so excited to find green garlic in […]
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) […]
Just the Pictures, Please!
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Tue, 05/05/2015 – 9:15am Today is my day to blog for The Land Connection. It is also the first day of the new downtown Champaign Farmers’ Market. So I am going to skip the pleasantries, and get right to the heart of the matter. Fresh spring food is beautiful. The […]
Long Days and Green Plates
As the days get longer, I seem to get further behind. At The Land Connection, we have moved from conference season to market season, and all of the things that seemed to be impossibly far off in January have us tripping over ourselves trying to keep up now. In April we were wondering what the […]
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 […]
