The Weblog

The local foods movement is alive and well in Champaign County! Here are some updates on other projects while we finalize our virtual market:

Local Producers Map:
Our local producers map is ready for publication and you will soon be able to find it on gochampaign.com. Copies will be distributed around the community, in the local telephone book, and other “hangouts”. The guide lists the location and contact information for nearly 50 local producers within our county. The map was a project of the Local Food Council and printed with the help of some local sponsors including the Monument Square District, Champaign Bank, the Community Improvement Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau and others. It is a great start to finding a local source for Champaign County’s finest!



 
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Turn On Your Lovelight!!


And, get your orders in, on this love filled day of Valentine’s Day!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

8am is your cut off time…make the love connection…

You're In My Heart


Breezing through the clientele
Spinning yarns that were so lyrical…

You’re in my heart, you’re in my soul
You’ll be my breath should I grow old…
(You’re In My Heart-Rod Stewart)

Who isn’t a sap for a great love song on Valentine’s eve? This one always makes me smile, and takes me back to college days. My treasured roommate/sorority sister was a huge Rod Stewart fan. Like, big. Like, we still text each other his song lyrics, if we feel the other needs a pick up or a laugh.

One year, I think it was our sophomore year, we were totally down on our luck with the boys. The ones that we liked, were not showing the love. The ones we didn’t like, were chasing us all over campus. We both had impossible crushes on two guys, at that time, but they were simply not looking our way. We decided to ban Valentine’s that day. We blasted anti-love songs, we laughed at the sappy cards and flowers being delivered to sorority sisters. We decided that to counteract the sappiness, we would head to the downtown happy hour to drown it all out. We did. We got silly. We proclaimed our love of the single life, and we were quite obnoxious. We strolled on home, stopping at different house parties, on the way, to throw one more stab at taking down the day of love.

The next day, I came in from class, to see two huge floral arrangements at our house mother’s desk. I laughed, went up to the room to have a nap, and once I was asleep, awoke to a ringing phone to tell me flowers were waiting for me. I went back downstairs, grabbed the flowers, and laughed as the card read that while we proclaimed our distaste of the holiday, we were both, always in the hearts, of this one particular fraternity, (which will remain nameless in this story). The other floral arrangement was for my roommate.

So, this weblog is dedicated to the lovers of love, the naysayers of love, the ones out there spreading the love, and to you all…our lovely customers who show us the love, and the love of local, each and every week.

Let this be our Valentine to you…and let’s make this a total love fest to end all love fests!! You have all day, until tomorrow at 8am, to show your love by ordering!!

You’re in OUR hearts, always!! And, remember…love comes in unexpected ways…just like my college saga proved. We love the love that you shine on us…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Pleasant Valley Sunday


The local rock group down the street
Is trying hard to learn their song
They serenade the weekend squire
Who just came out to mow his lawn
Another pleasant valley Sunday…
(Pleasant Valley Sunday-The Monkees)

Need a Sunday playlist to kick your day into gear? Add this to your Sunday songs…and, while you are at it, pop it on while you are perusing the market!

The Sunday weather looks gloomy, dreary, and uncertain…make your Sunday, truly pleasant, by trusting us to help you through the week.

Take the morning to get organized, make your list, and then breeze through…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Local Love!


It’s what we do…local love!!

Jump on the love train to join the market fun!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Riders On The Storm


Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we’re born
Into this world we’re thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out alone
Riders on the storm…
(Riders On The Storm-The Doors)

Well, we are certainly having a bit of a snow storm out there, this early cold morning!!

Yesterday, I baked all afternoon, and while listening to a selection of classic rock songs, this came on. So fitting for the weather we are experiencing. Aren’t we all riders on the storm? Today, the snow, one day the rain, any day, whatever that storm may be?

Let us help you make the storms, be it weather related or life related. We can’t make it all better but we can help make it easier by taking the hassle out of your shopping.

We have one hour before the market closes for the week. We have so many selections, and so much for you to easily fill your cart with, press pay now, and then forget it until Thursday when you come to grab it all from us.

You just have to exit your car, pay at the desk, and dance on over to our market area where we are waiting, with your order in hand, with smiling faces, and a basket full of local loveliness…

Go ahead…be that rider on the storm but let us at least offer you a bit of shelter by handing you your local…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Monday, Monday


Happy Monday evening!!

As we ease out of last night’s snowy, ice filled roads, and the Super Bowl, we are now at Monday evening, looking ahead for the week.

Your market manager has just poured a glass of wine, and is perusing her market order…it’s the perfect kind of evening for you to do the same!!

Shop in comfort, in local ease, in nutritional excitement!!

We are here, and the vendors would love you to throw them some love!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Hello, there!


It’s us! Just your little local market of love!

Time to reopen for the week, and so happy to have you back!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Hello, Wednesday!


That’s right, my market kit kats…it’s Wednesday morning, and that means we will be closing the market at 8am, today!!

There is still time to peruse the products, vendors, and all that we offer…I love seeing your smiling faces on Thursday pick up day, so get it in gear, and make your order happen!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Your Tuesday Lovenote


Reminding you that today is your last day to order!

We close at 8am, tomorrow morning!

Shine your love straight at us!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Sunday Morning Sunshine!


What a beautiful sunshine day!

Why not start the week in the same beautiful way?

Take some time to gather your thoughts, grab your nearest smart device, or sit at your desk, and throw us some sunshine love with your weekly orders!

Make it your Sunday thing of self love….making your life, easier, healthier, and locally based, is the best form of self love!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam