Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Fri, 09/19/2014 – 4:12pm I have recently discovered about myself that I have a strange preoccupation with hands. I constantly pick at my fingernails, I tap on desks and I notice peculiarities and distinguishing features of my own and the hands of people around me. Perhaps it is evolutionarily driven […]
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Lobbying for Local Food
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Mon, 05/09/2016 – 1:53pm About a month ago, Sarah and I headed down to Springfield to join the Illinois Stewardship Alliance for their annual Local Food Lobby day at the state capital. Neither of us had ever attended a lobby day event or attempted to lobby for a cause before, […]
Making a Market in May
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Tue, 04/05/2016 – 9:45am It’s April already and I am so glad that it’s actually starting to feel like it! (I’ll never forget the April blizzard of a few years back…) The ground is warming, the sun is still going strong when I get out of the office. And things […]
Market Rain Out Realizations
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Mon, 09/14/2015 – 4:40pm Last week’s market got rained out. And it wasn’t the warm summer downpour that we’ve held multiple markets in, but rather a bone-chilling rainstorm that made the few vendors and TLC staff members that were there tremble under tree cover in hopes it would pass quickly. […]
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 […]
Nothing Like It
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Tue, 03/31/2015 – 10:08am They say that there is nothing like that first breath of warm air after the winter. But I have to disagree. Because there is something like it isn’t there? And the more that I think about it, the more certain I am that there are many […]
