Agrarian Roundtable

04/25/2023

A unique networking experience for local food growers, value added producers & businesses, buyers, distributors and wholesalers in Central Illinois.

04/25/2023

From the Land Connection

Food Fair: Connecting Producers and Buyers
What: Food Fair: Connecting Producers & Buyers
When: June 28, 2023 10am to 4pm
Where: Epiphany Farm Estates at Moraine View
Cost: $20-includes lunch from Ephiphany

A unique networking experience for local food growers, value added producers & businesses, buyers, distributors and wholesalers in Central Illinois.

WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?

Local food growers & producers
Local food businesses & processors
Local food distributors
Food service providers
Institutional meal program administrators
Food literacy and education practitioners

VENDOR FAIR & NETWORKING

Looking to add a new source for local ingredients? Seeking a distributor to meet your wholesale needs? Looking for a bigger market for selling your products?

Meet a variety of farmers, producers, suppliers, buyers, and distributors at the Food Fair.

LOCAL FOODS DISCUSSION

From the Field to the People: In depth discussions with farmers, policy action committees, distributors, buyers, and suppliers working across the Central Illinois food scape.

Hear unique perspectives of the successes and challenges associated with changing markets and attitudes around local food. Learn more about The Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA).

HYPER LOCAL LUNCH & LEARN

Come learn from and eat with a central Illinois chef and restauranter focused on using local ingredients.

Chef will showcase our delicious, hyper local lunch and will share their connection to the local food economy post lunch. It should be an engaging and delicious opportunity.

Register Here!

03/07/2023

A few book resources we have found insightful on soil health. On our small homestead, we are novices in understanding the land beneath our feet in gardens, fields, prairie and orchards.

03/07/2023

It is Soil Health Week...

Did you know that one of Illinois’ most precious resources is soil? Last year, Illinois celebrated its first ever Soil Health Week and saw first-hand that soil is the ultimate connector and has a w…

02/20/2023

11/27/2022

I purchased our place sixteen years ago yesterday. It has been a place of deep joy. Hospitality has been extended to family and friends, active birds and generous bees, abundant gardens and ambitious trees.

The quarter section surrounding our homestead in east central Illinois will be sold at auction on Tuesday.

We have been very fortunate to have a great neighbor. Owned by his sister, the land has been farmed and managed by Don. Our home and the adjacent property belonged to his family. We have appreciated his care and our conversation "over the fence."

With anticipation, we look forward to discovering our new neighbors.

08/26/2022

For East Central Illinois friends...

08/04/2022

Wendell Berry once defined “community” this way:

“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.”

07/28/2022

If you are in the area...

07/12/2022

Friends in East Central Illinois - thought this might be of interest to farmland-owners in our area.
Ed Taylor

Even if you don’t farm your family’s farmland yourself, you can steward that land in ways that leave a legacy of healthy soil, resilient productivity, clean water, wildlife habitat, and rural beauty that future generations will cherish and be blessed by. 

05/26/2022

Check out the berrycenter.org

“It all turns on affection,” invoked Wendell Berry in his 2012 Jefferson Lecture. The Berry Center is building equitable and ecological farming futures based on affection—for creatures, for people, place, and for the planet.

Celebrating over 10 years of putting Wendell Berry’s writings to work by advocating for farmers, land conserving communities, and healthy regional economies. About The Berry Center Support The Berry Center join our MAILING LIST Events “It all turns on affection,” invoked Wendell Berry in his 2...