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 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
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 [...]
