Grumpy Glenn and Judy | May 25, 2009
We are proud members of the Illinois Farm Bureau. How exciting it was to see an article on page 15 of the May 18th FarmWeek edition entitled “Farmers, ranchers plugging in to social media”. As I have learned over the last few months, social media is huge for every segment of business. That includes all of us who are in the business of “Eating Local and Buying Local”.
Grumpy Glenn and Judy | May 13, 2009
It was just a matter of time….. Massive companies such as Frito-Lay are starting a marketing campaign with the theme of “local food”. Five different ads will highlight farmers who grow some of the two billion pounds of starchy chipping potatoes the Frito-Lay company uses each year. Read the whole New York Times article [...]
Grumpy Glenn and Judy | May 12, 2009
We came across two terms new to us recently….Ecopreneur and Locavore. Today, we’ll explore what it means to be an ecopreneur. This self-test to determine if you are indeed an ecopreneur was taken from ecopreneurist.com:
Grumpy Glenn and Judy | May 11, 2009
We, along with other local Farmers’ Market Vendors are being given the opportunity to do a short presentation at an Eating Local Workshop this week in Elizabeth, IL. The assignment is to spend a few minutes talking about how we have impacted the Eating/Buying Local movement. This blog, along with the Facebook Group we started [...]
Grumpy Glenn and Judy | May 10, 2009
Last week we purchased a wonderful leg of lamb from Marvin’s Gardens at the Elizabeth Farmers’ Market. Marvin suggested we marinade it with a simple red wine marinade. Here’s what we did and it was incredible:
Grumpy Glenn and Judy | May 10, 2009
Farmers’ Market Coalition - a fairly new organization that is driven by 3 goals:
Farmers earn fair prices for the fruits of their labor by selling directly to consumers.
Consumers gain access to fresh, nutritious, local produce.
Communities regain a figurative “town square,” experiencing the many positive outcomes of foot traffic and animated public space.
The [...]
Grumpy Glenn and Judy | May 10, 2009
At the Dubuque Downtown Saturday morning market our Galena Dips booth is in a new spot this year. We are right in the thick of things on 13th Street just east of Iowa. From our new spot we get to people watch, and boy is that fun!
Here is a photo [...]
Grumpy Glenn and Judy | May 5, 2009
This weeks purchases:
Elizabeth, IL on Friday and Dubuque, IA on Saturday- I went nuts!
