Happy Friday!

Hello, customers and vendors of this little local market of love…

Just a reminder that our annual State Of The Plate celebration is taking place, on October 8th, at Pretty Prairie Farm!!

The deadline to reserve a seat at the table is by the end of business day, today!! Please call the Champaign Chamber of Commerce to place your reservations!!

It is always such an amazing day of sharing food, stories, meeting various market vendors, and celebrating all that is grown/produced locally, in Champaign County!!

Don’t forget…the deadline is today!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Turn On Your Lovelight!

So, what are you waiting for? I am getting ready to open the market for the week!!

Before I do that, let me just caution you about ordering from here. Only order if you are interested in all things local! Only order if you love knowing that your food is being grown/produced, right here, in your own backyard. Only order if you love the thought of spending your money in our own community. Only order if you love the ease of our market, the ease of the weekly pick up, the fun of being greeted by your market managers, handing you your baskets, bags, or armloads of local goodness…

Only order if this is all important to you!!! If it is not important to you, then…what? How can this NOT be important to you?

Ok…you seasoned, loyal, weekly customers…proceed to the market!! You new, timid, unsure, sort of scared or sort of trying to make that jump into all local, affordable, nutrition, people….well, ok, you move right on along to the market site, too!! There is no time like the now time!! Just do it!!

Our market is opening…and, let me give you all a few heads up on a couple of items that I purchased, from this week’s market.

The new paw paws from Valley View Woodlands…AMAZING…could not quit obsessing about them. Almost custard like. I termed them a tropical crème brulee!! They are so tender, your market managers ate them with spoons, right out of their skin. MUST ORDER.

The triple chocolate gluten-free take and bake cookies from Madison Ling! Popped a cookie sheet full of them, into my oven, the minute I walked in the door, and started dinner…After they cooled, and after I had my steamed brown rice with slow roasted tomatoes from the all organic gardens of Hippie and the Farmer, I sampled one of the cookies…yes, yes, yes!! I cannot express just how delightful these are!!

These are just a FEW of the many items on our market, and only a few of what I purchased!!

You all rocked the market out, this week…let’s do it, again!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Get Your Groove On

This week’s market closes at 8am, this morning!!

Go ahead…you still have time to join the fun!!

Ready, set, order…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Way Down Yonder In The Paw Paw Patch

Because you knew it was coming…because of this big news from Valley View Woodlands!!

I wanted to let our fellow market members know that Valley View Woodlands has just listed our pawpaws for the first time.  Our pawpaw orchard is finally coming into maturity, and this is our first real harvest.  The varieties we planted were selected for size and taste.  I’m sure anyone who tastes them will agree—they are delicious!  They are currently the world’s hottest food trend.  In recent months they have been featured in many articles, including a cover story in a gourmet magazine. 
 
Eaten fresh with a spoon, or used to make ice cream, mousse, or smoothies, people love the banana-mango flavor.  Check the market for an ice cream recipe. It’s a tropical treat we can grow right here in Champaign County.  The colorful pulp is very nutritious, ranking with oranges and bananas in vitamins and minerals.  It is also loaded with anti-oxidants.  There is also currently research going on involving pawpaws’ cancer-fighting properties.
 
One other exciting note is that by next week we hope to have pawpaw trees for sale.  These are trees we have grown from seed.  We will feature grafted varieties—they are grafted like apples to propagate known improved cultivars.  Seeds collected from our orchard will also be available so that folks can start their own trees.  We will send out another notice when they are available. 
 
Thanks to our fellow market members for their support!

Marc Stadler
Valley View Woodlands!!

When Your Hot Your Hot...

So…the weekend passed by in a blazing haze of heat!!

I hope that you all were able to get out to enjoy one or both of the local happenings, locally.

Saturday found your two market managers at the Simon Kenton Chili Cook Off competing with Hippie and the Farmer!! We got second place in booth creativity and design!! Yay!! It also gave us time to promote this market!!

Sunday found me with my side gig, The Soul Sisters, at the Covered Bridge and Bluegrass Festival in Union County!! Again, a hot day, but so fun to be out, do a bit of promoting, and it was nice to support our sister county!!

Now, we have crashed into fall, crashed into Monday, and still have that sunny heat!!

To celebrate the coming in of fall, Madison Ling has listed her gluten free zucchini bread!!

Why not take a moment, and get back in the swing of things, and order from our market!! You don’t even have to be out in the heat to do it!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Happy Moving Into Fall!!

Ok…we are now through the summer months, but that is no reason to not get your orders in for the market!!

We still have so much of the season’s bounty, and now, as you move into the shorter days, the soon to be crisp weather, you will want to begin to think of how you will transition your cooking, your kitchen, your entertaining…

This season gives us so many rich colors, rich textures, and foods that lend themselves to this perfect backdrop…

Take some time, this weekend, and weekend, and think about how your cooking will change in the coming weeks. How can we help in that?

And, it’s not just cooking…you will need candles, soaps, oils…all of it…

Fall weather is like an awakening to our senses…take advantage…use our market for this incoming season of technicolor love…

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Wake Up Call!

Good morning!!

I am having coffee, getting ready to bake the day away, and wanted to remind you that you have until 8am to get your orders in!!

Make your morning count!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Tuesday Dose Of Love!

Show yourself some love by making your week a bit easier!! Place your order, for the week, and then sit back, enjoy, and breeze through on Thursday, to pick it all up with ease!

You have until tomorrow morning!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Just Like That!

Another market week opens!

There are a couple of vendors in vacation mode for next week!!

They will return soon, but sometimes, our vendors need a recharge!!

Thank you for always supporting this market!! You make it a lovely time, each week!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam

Last Call!

You have until 8am to get your orders in before we close for this week!!

Go…don’t be late!!

XOXO,
Cosmic Pam