Going Up The Country

I’m goin’ up the country, baby don’t you want to go?
I’m goin’ up the country, baby don’t you want to go?
I’m goin’ to some place where I’ve never been before…
(Going Up The Country-Canned Heat)

It’s that time of year…it’s music festival time, and you know how excited that makes your market manager! Time to cue up the 60s tunes, baby, because I blow out of town, this Thursday, for the beloved Jubilee Festival that I attend, each year!

I work hard, each and every day, and I work even harder, on this week, each year, JUST so I can hit the open road with my trusty gang of pals…destination, the gates of Maggie’s Farm…a weekend of Grateful Dead music, dancing, camping, forgetting everything, leaving it all behind.

It’s the weekend that revives me, reunites me with the people who love me, and rekindles my love of just being…just nothing, where my biggest decision is which stage I want to migrate to for which band. What cocktail I may want. What tapestry to hang in each spot of our tapestry lounge.

The gates of the Jubilee, and Maggie’s Farm are like going home, going up the country. The long lane is a welcoming feeling. The festival greeters welcome you to a weekend world of hippies, love, and brotherhood/sisterhood. It’s just groovy, man…

So, much like my beloved Maggie’s Farm experience, this market holds the same welcoming, love, and grooviness for us all.

I hope that I am able to bring that to our market as your manager. The love fest that I want out of life. The kindness, goodness, and local love.

This week, let this market help you go up country. Let it be your love fest. We have so much to love, right now!

We have seasonal goodness! Greens, lettuce, herbs, early garlic, STRAWBERRIES!!! We’ve got it all, arriving weekly!!!

And…you ain’t seen nothin’ yet…(to borrow another song implant).

So, let’s let our minds take us away, via this market. Create your own lovely getaway by placing your orders!

It’s the perfect release from reality…

Peace, Love, Grooviness…
Cosmic Pam

Hey, Now!!

The market is now open!!

Show us some love!!

Peace, Love, Grooviness!

Cosmic Pam

California Dreaming

All the leaves are brown (All the leaves are brown)…
And the sky is gray (And the sky is gray)
I’ve been for a walk (I’ve been for a walk)…
On a winter’s day (On a winter’s day)
I’d be safe and warm (I’d be safe and warm)…
If I was in L.A. (If I was in L.A.)…
(California Dreaming-The Mamas and Papas)

Oh, wait…it’s not a winter’s day? I was so confused these past few days!! Yesterday was finally a beautiful, bright, warm day, but now, back to the cold, drizzle, gray…enough to make this market manager crazy!

On these days, I let my mind drift back to a time when I lived on the west coast, California, Los Angeles, San Francisco. The sleepy little beach hideaways, the perfect coastal drives, the warmth. I lived in quite a few places in the years I was out there…Venice Beach, Westwood, Malibu, Santa Monica, up in the canyons, in the heart of San Francisco. I felt like the luckiest girl in the world to be living in the place that I grew up wanting to escape to.

On these gray days, I love to think back to the places made me happy, made me excited, and forever have etched amazing memories in my brain.

This market can do the same for me on these gray and drizzly days. It makes me happy to see the lovely produce beginning to turn up on our market pages. The vendors make me smile. The customers and our bonds with them, give me a sense of love. And, this market is always showing me excitement!

In case you didn’t know, the vendors that are a part of this market are top notch. They bring the best of their best to us, each week. They are amazing in heart, amazing in spirit, and amazing to work with. I hope they know just how happy, and full of love, they make me, as their market manager!

It’s this time of year when we continue to welcome back some of our seasonal family. We welcomed back Beth, of Harrigan’s Harvest, Lee and Jennifer, of End Of The Road, and now we welcome back, Kevin, with his lettuces from Davidson Family Farms!

Find your own California dreaming, on a dreary day like today, right inside our market! Place your orders, and feel the love…

It’s Tuesday, and that means the market will be closing at 10pm, tonight! Don’t be left out in the cold…move into your own California sunshine with orders from this little local market of love…

Peace, Love, and Grooviness…
Cosmic Pam

He's Gone

Nothin’ left to do but smile, smile, smile…
(He’s Gone-Grateful Dead)

I’m not going to lie…it’s been a week! It’s been a day in, day out, big huge irritation. Daily. Testing my patience. Making me practice my big smiles. Testing my ability to just stay calm.

Nothing huge or earth shattering, but sure enough…each day. Smile.

I have a good friend who tells us to put it in a bubble and let it go. Just as I did, I was sending another bubble, and another….it was a free for all of bubbles. Music festival like bubbles.

So, yes….smile, smile, smile. It helps. Turn up the music, chat with a friend, laugh, dance, pour a glass of wine….whatever calms you after a week like this. Just let that stuff go. Pronto! Smile!

It’s so nice to know that after a week like this, easy street is just one block away, with kindness very near.

That’s what our little local market is all about. Helping you smile, giving you a break, making it all easy. Groovy. Steady.

I am opening the market for the week. Take advantage of all we have to offer!

Peace, Love, and Forever Grooviness…
Cosmic Pam

Hey, Now!

Still need to order?

There is still time…you have until 10pm! Get your motors running!

Peace, Love, and Grooviness…
Cosmic Pam

Rainy Days and Mondays

What I feel has come and gone before…
No need to talk it out…
We know what it’s all about…
Hangin’ around…
Nothin’ to do but frown…
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down
(Rainy Days and Mondays-The Carpenters)

Well, today certainly does fit the song title and lyric of this Weblog! It’s been a non-stop, cold, dreary, drizzling kind of day. The kind of day that just continued to be more gray, more cold, and more like moving into early winter instead of late spring!

But, the good news for days like, today, is that the sun will always shine, it has to get warmer, and you always have bright and shiny things, like this little local market of love, to see you through!

Who cares what the weather is doing if you don’t have to be out in it to shop! Who cares if it’s dreary, when we have so many products that scream spring, sunshine, and nice days ahead!

At this market, we ONLY know goodness, and smiles, and happiness, and lovely products. So, curl up, get cozy, and start your orders! You will be so happy when Thursday rolls around, and all you have to do is stop at the YMCA to grab your pocket full of sunshine with spring produce, live plants and herbs, spring garlic, and all of the rest of the products!

Rainy days and Mondays may always get you down, but now you can turn them into the happiest days with placing your market orders!

Peace, Love, and Grooviness…
Cosmic Pam

Thanks For The Love!

This week’s market was such a gigantic love fest, that we are back, again, for even more fun and love!

And, what’s not to love with the fresh produce, live herbs, plants, just a local love explosion of seasonal favorites!

And, each seasonal item pairs so perfectly with our year round products!

Get your orders in! Let the love begin!

Peace, Love, Grooviness…
Cosmic Pam

Ready, Steady, Go!

It’s that time, little local market of love customers!!

It’s 7:30 on a Tuesday night, and that means you have until 10pm to get your orders all ready, and placed!!

You don’t want to miss out on the amazing asparagus, the spring garlic, the live plants and herbs, and everything else that this market has to offer!!

We are rockin’ right along with amazing numbers, customers, and large orders!! I love seeing so many orders from customers who we have not seen in a while!! And, of course, it’s amazing to see each and every one of you, each week!

Let’s do this…let’s get those orders in!!

I am baking the night away, and love watching each name pop up!!

See you at 10pm!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Tighter and Tighter

You know I got to show you…
Nobody else before you…
Ever gave me such a beautiful feelin’…
(Alive N’ Kickin’-Tighter and Tighter)

Dust off your 1970s pop music!! It’s May, it’s fun music time!! And, for your market manager, it’s music festival season!! May kicks it all off!! Months of sun, fun, music, friends!!

This market, festival season…it really does give me just a beautiful feeling!! And, while I watch this market grow and grow, it’s amazing to think that 5 years ago, we were just launching our little local market of love!! That’s right, 5 years ago, in May, we went live with this whole concept. We went against the odds, against the nay sayers, against the opposition, the doubts, the non-believers.

And, look at us, now!! Strong, an umbrella for all local farmers markets, a true force that just gets tighter and tighter!

To celebrate, to kick off our 5th year, to kick off the season of our area farmers markets, and of course, kicking off music festival season for the market manager, I am bringing back the summer market playlist!! We will start building the Summer Market Of Love Soundtrack, again, and each week, we will randomly pick a customer who placed an order for that week, into the drawing for a cd of market songs, to be placed in your order at pick up!!

“Honey don’t a-let go now” Not when we are starting even more fun!!

Let’s get tighter and tighter…let’s see how high we we can get the orders, this week!! Let’s try to blow through our previous record of high orders!! We can do it!! Let’s kick off this amazing season, AND, our anniversary, with mind blowing sales!!

Let’s get that beautiful feeling…

Ok, go, crank up the 1970s pop music, and show us some love!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Open!

After an evening of market site glitches, we are open!!

Much Love,
Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam