Crazy Love

Yes it makes me righteous, yes it makes me feel whole, yes it makes me mellow down in to my soul…(Crazy Love, Van Morrison)

Have you ever had one of those weeks that once you got through the craziness of it all, you just stopped, reflected, were thankful for the love and just felt that all was right with the world and your whole being just felt a mellow calm?

That is how I woke up, this morning. Like most mornings, I got up before it was light, started my Cosmic baking in the soul kitchen, had my coffee and tunes to help me groove, and then went into deep thought.

When you are a lone baker, (we used to call it pirate baking), you spend a lot of time with yourself and your thoughts. Let me tell you, if the world leaders could all start kneading endless loaves of bread, they could probably all come up with so many thoughts to solve everything. Anyway, my thoughts took me back over the past week.

And, what a week it was!! On top of my crazy baking, I oversee this lovely online market, I opened up the Mechanicsburg market, and then, yesterday, it was opening day for the Springfield market. I, at times, felt a bit overwhelmed, but once the markets all opened, and with this market having an amazing week, last week, all I could feel was crazy love!!!

The local communities give us so much love. I feel that all of us in the market circuits have brought the meaning of farmer’s markets, eating local, buying local, know your farmer, know your producer, to whole new levels!! We are your faces of local. We don’t just talk the talk, we walk the walk.

The lives of our farmers, producers, bakers is not an easy one. If that person adds a market or two, it adds a whole new level to their work. We are out there, in the early mornings, the late evenings, getting ready to bring the best that our producers have to offer. We do it because we believe in it and we do it because of our love for you, the customers.

We also seem to be building bridges with surrounding counties. I love this!! I love speaking with other counties, working multiple county farmers markets, making it all one big world of crazy local love.

This market is doing just that. It brings such love to my soul to see the customer base that continues to build not just from our county but from other counties. The word is out…we are out there. We are all working it to get the word of local out!

I thank my vendors for not only vending with this market, but, if able, to be out in the trenches at any of the physical markets. Together, we bring it all together, to tie it all to one big local family of crazy love.

It’s Sunday, lovely locavores…it’s a bit rainy and dreary, right now, so why not take a bit of quiet time, think about your week, think about what kind of local love you need, and get your orders in.

I will tell you that when I opened the market on Thursday night, we sort of set a record for the amount of sales coming in on opening night. Amazing!

Go, show us some love, let us show you what local love can do for you…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam