Ohio Fish and Shrimp Festival

While you are thinking about all that you want to order from our little local market of love, why not take a little adventure for the weekend, and head out to our own, local, Freshwater Farms!!

It’s their weekend of the annual Ohio Fish and Shrimp Festival!! Bigger than ever!!

You will find some of your favorite vendors, from this market, all set up and ready to sell, like…JC Growers, Mad Sweet Heat, and ELM Tree Essentials, just to name a few!!

You will find your two market managers all set up and ready to bring you our very own culinary delights, as Hippie and the Farmer join the other food vendors who will be lining the long lane!!

This festival is amazing, it’s local, and Dr. Dave Smith works super hard with his team to make this happen!!

Enjoy the festival, get your orders in…it’s all you need to do!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Another Week!

Hello, lovelies!!

The market is now open for your ordering pleasure!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Last Call!!

You now have an additional 15 minutes to get those orders in!!

The market is rockin’ and rollin’….don’t miss out on the fun!!!

Go, order, be happy, thank me, always!!

When The Leaves Come Falling Down

I saw you standing with the wind and the rain in your face
And you were thinking ’bout the wisdom of the leaves and their grace
When the leaves come falling down
In September when the leaves, come falling down…

And at night the moon is shining on a clear, cloudless sky…
(When The Leaves Come Falling Down-Van Morrison)

If you ever want to get lost in a beautiful song, with beautiful lyrics, put this on, light candles, pour a glass of wine, or tea, or water, or coffee, or cider…and begin your dinner prep…the music will let you drift back in time, or let your thoughts swirl into the autumn sunsets with the first leaves…

I know that we have not crossed that threshold from summer to autumn, just yet, but yesterday, I had the afternoon to myself, and I took a drive out on back roads, with my convertible top down, back to my roots, my old stomping grounds, the West End. The breeze, the sunshine, the golden hue…all signals that the change is in the air. The crisp passing of the seasons.

I spent time going in and out of roads, went past the house I was born in and lived until I was two. I drove past my old school. I landed at my mother’s house, and sat in my favorite spot, at this time of year. The back porch has steps leading down to the back yard, and with all of the majestic trees, overhead, I love to sit, listen to the quiet, and watch the sunlight dance through the shadows of the trees.

Instantly, I remember racing through yards, playing games with all of the neighbor kids, remembering growing, coming of age, leaving home for college, leaving home for California, leaving home, leaving home, leaving home…

But, yesterday, as I sat on the steps, I was no longer the toddler, or the young girl, or the teen girl…I am now grown, always busy, always flitting to everything I am involved in, but for those fleeting moments, on that porch, I am revisiting an old friend, my old yard, house, memories…

Just like this market, this week…everyone seems to be returning to our little local market of love home. Customers, vendors, everyone is finding their way home after their summer away.

Like falling leaves that swirl…we all swirl back to where we belong…

We have products added back to the market, we have Champaign Berry with their added popular jams and sauces that they needed to replenish.

Think about the comforts of home, heart, family, and autumn love…plan the shift in your cooking, baking, eating…we have it all to make it feel like you are back home…

Today is Tuesday, the market seems to be exploding, and I want you all to get in on the ordering fun!! We close, tonight, at 10pm!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Golden Road of Unlimited Devotion

Well everybody’s dancin’ in a ring around the sun
Nobody’s finished, we ain’t even begun.
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat.
Try on your wings and find our where it’s at.
(Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion-The Grateful Dead)

Well, the sun and the heat feel like it’s early July, but the calendar and the early dark evening tell us it’s pushing right on with September.

September…the month of endings and beginnings. The golden opportunity month, I like to call it. The glittery gold ways that feel good when you are basking in them.

It’s the end of the physical farmers’ markets, it’s the end of festival season, and it’s the beginning of the beauty and tranquility that come with the changing of the seasons, the changing of the weather, the changing of the color scheme.

I open the market, this week, with nothing but beginnings in mind. The hot summer, the hard growing season, it’s all almost behind us. What we have to look forward to is the bounty of the fall season, a year round market that brings you the best of the best, and a chance to buy, spend, and support local products!!

Let us be your Golden Road of Unlimited Devotion…let us be your colorful path to all things local. Let us help you dance around a ring of rock stars of local…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Hello...

The holiday weekend has now officially come to a close, it’s Tuesday evening, not the Monday evening that it seems like, and we are looking at closing the market for the week.

The holiday weeks always seem to mess this market up a bit so I am going to leave it open until 11pm, this evening, so that everyone can race, run, speed to the market site and get their orders in!

I apologize for being a bit of a slacker on the Weblog front, this weekend. I took a bit of time off, and then I went to be with one of my oldest, and closest friends while their son is in the hospital in Dayton.

But, I am on it, now, and I want to see those orders flowing in!!!!

You have extra time…let’s get this party started!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

September

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember how the stars stole the night away

Ba de ya, say do you remember
Ba de ya, dancing in September
Ba de ya, never was a cloudy day
(September-Earth, Wind, and Fire)

Well, if we are going to do this September thing, we may as well usher it in with a funky disco beat!! Make it fun, make it your own, make it a dance worthy preface to later in the month when we give way to autumn days.

Wow, like, seriously…September, man? Wasn’t I JUST beginning the crazy, market season months? The prelude to the summer heatwave? Well, those months just sort of raced by, giving way to a bit of relief from the Heat Draining Months of 2016.

This is the time of year, if you vend multiple markets, manage a couple of them, own a shop, bake your life away, and co-own another business, where your life finally goes back to just a regular crazy instead of a high octane crazy!! A time where you can stop, bask in the golden sun, enjoy the crisp breezes, and experience a rebirth of sorts.

The oncoming tease of fall always makes me feel like I am on the edge of rebirth, friskiness, open to adventure, and a general energy that only comes with the lull of time between heat wave and arctic tundra.

September…love it, embrace it, work it, caress it, savor it, and take advantage of what it has to offer!

Enter our market…still full of late season produce!! An additional egg vendor!! The incoming new dairy options!! Goodbye to some of our favorite summer produce, only to say hello to the next season!!

This market is dancing in September…won’t you join us?

Peace, Love, Groovy Tunes…
Cosmic Pam

A Market Announcement!

Vendors and customers, tonight!!

The YMCA is on their annual shutdown, but the market will operate as per usual!!

A huge thank you to the staff for allowing us to do this!!

Much Love,
Cosmic Pam

Hey, Now, You're a Rock Star!

Yes…you, and you, and all of us, and especially this market!

Go ahead!! Shoot us into even more of a rock star status by placing your orders before 10pm, this evening!

That’s right…it’s Tuesday!! I know that with the first weeks of school, the impending holiday, it’s all a blur of activity. Just don’t forget that when you order with us, you are actually making strides in easing your load, helping with your stress, and opening up the option to eat, shop, and spend, locally…

Go ahead…be a rock star!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Hey, Now, You're a Rock Star!

Yes…you, and you, and all of us, and especially this market!

Go ahead!! Shoot us into even more of a rock star status by placing your orders before 10pm, this evening!

That’s right…it’s Tuesday!! I know that with the first weeks of school, the impending holiday, it’s all a blur of activity. Just don’t forget that when you order with us, you are actually making strides in easing your load, helping with your stress, and opening up the option to eat, shop, and spend, locally…

Go ahead…be a rock star!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam