The Land Connection is pleased to announce we have received funding from the UNFI Foundation and United Way of Champaign County. Funding will support the Champaign Farmers Market through 2020 and help us support food access programs during the winter months. The UNFI Foundation is providing funding to enable the Champaign Farmers Market to build […]
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Just Food?
Submitted by Terra Brockman on Tue, 01/21/2014 – 9:20am “I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech These words […]
Injecting Common Sense Into the Antibiotics Debate
Submitted by Terra Brockman on Fri, 12/27/2013 – 7:38am My first 4-H animal, Frosty, was a pretty heifer with a robust constitution and a feisty disposition. She had calves each year and never once came down with mastitis or any other infection that required antibiotic treatment. I was not quite so feisty or robust as […]
