This month we are featuring a fun (and slightly healthier) take on a kid favorite nibble – fruit snacks. We will provide all of the ingredients that you need to make your own, homemade fruit snacks using fresh and local ingredients.
Champaign Farmers' Market
Kids Really DO Like Veggies
Submitted by Cassie Carroll on Mon, 06/27/2016 – 3:45pm Since running the sampling tent at the Champaign Farmers’ Market this season, I’ve busted a big myth. I’ve witnessed it with my own eyes and I can validate that kids really DO like eating vegetables.I always hear people comment on how their child refuses to eat anything […]
Making the Market Triply Accessible
Submitted by sarah@thelandco… on Mon, 10/03/2016 – 1:08pm Last week I got to witness a perfect storm moment: all the things I’ve been working so hard to accomplish with our farmers’ market wrapped up in one family encounter. We had held a promotional drawing the previous week to draw more Parkland College students out to the […]
Market Halftime Report
Submitted by Sarah Simeziane on Fri, 08/18/2017 – 5:59pm 13 weeks down, 11 to go. We’ve hit the halfway point of Season 3 at the Champaign Farmers’ Market, and I’m just going to cut to the chase and say the season has surpassed all expectations. I’ll be honest, last year was a struggle. Attendance was […]
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. […]
Market Wrap-Up 2016
Submitted by sarah@thelandco… on Mon, 11/07/2016 – 4:52pm The weather may not feel like it, but November is indeed upon us. Which sadly means the end of outdoor farmers’ market season in this neck of the woods. The Champaign Farmers’ Market concluded its sophomore season on October 25, which means it’s now time to reflect […]
