Submitted by Sarah Simeziane on Thu, 01/03/2019 – 11:36am In the grand scheme of things, we’re still a pretty young market here in Champaign. With the start of the new year, however, it has really struck me: this year the Champaign Farmers Market turns 5! It doesn’t feel like 4 years could have possibly gone […]
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Maybe You Should Just Do It Yourself
Submitted by Taidghin O’Brien on Mon, 12/17/2018 – 1:18pm This week I’m going to keep my food-centric entry brief. I could list all of the fun things I’ve been cooking (lots of soups and soba noodles with various braising greens and bok choi) or what I’m going to be making for New Year’s Day, but […]
Would you drive a car blindfolded?
Submitted by Jacquelyn Evers on Mon, 12/03/2018 – 4:53pm Have you ever thought about what scary things are lurking in your soil? Me neither… until I started working at The Land Connection. Soil is one of those topics that just keeps surfacing here. It comes up in emails, at meetings, in project conversations. It’s everywhere! […]
How the USDA has invested in TLC
Submitted by Sarah Simeziane on Mon, 11/26/2018 – 3:48pm Back in September at the National Direct Ag Marketing summit, I got the chance to present a poster on TLC’s work combining grants to bolster our farmers market and food access programming (more about that trip in a past blog entry). In a nutshell, our poster […]
Friendsgiving: Why we Gather to Give Thanks
Submitted by Taidghin O’Brien on Thu, 11/15/2018 – 4:10pm Rey and I went to a Friendsgiving celebration last night and it reminded me what Thanksgiving is about, not from a historical standpoint but from an etymological standpoint. Thanksgiving is a celebratory embodiment of the actual act of giving thanks. But, more on that later. We […]
The Chicken Tractor
Submitted by Jacquelyn Evers on Tue, 10/30/2018 – 10:38am When I first started at The Land Connection, we had an event on the calendar titled, “Chicken Tractors.” For weeks I thought this had to be an inside joke because I had never come across the term, but I didn’t say anything and knew the meaning […]
