Turn On Your Love Light

Turn on your lights, let it shine on me…
Turn on your love light, let it shine on me…
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine…(Turn On Your Love Light-Grateful Dead)

So, we have totally been feeling the love that you all have been shining on us as our market numbers grow and grow in customers, vendors, sales. We have been feeling the local love fest so much that it just makes us truly want to turn on our love light for you, each and every day!

Building trust, building a customer base, building a vendor base, building the love, is a long and steady practice that needs constant attention, constant care, constant nurturing.

What I am seeing at this lovely little local market is an amazing balance of customers to vendors to happiness. Our customers are a varied bunch from all ages, all wants, all needs, but with a common bond of wanting the best, wanting to keep it local, and trusting us to give them what they desire.

Our vendors are a varied bunch, as well. We have all types of vendors, all doing separate/different amazing things and bringing the market the best of the best, each and every week, in our desire to keep it local, building those bonds of trust, and trying to always give the customers what they desire.

I am lucky to be able to sit behind the scenes and watch this little local love fest all unfold. I see what the vendors all bring to the table, I talk with them, each and every week, I hear their ideas, I hear their excitement, I witness all of the goodness that they put in front of us, each week. We have varied vendors bringing you eggs…each different, each amazing, and each building a customer following.

We have a large amount of bakers who are all doing their own thing, baking to their own philosophies, offering you baked goods without all the added junk that you would get by purchasing a box of processed baked goods at a mass chain store.

We have meat producers who bring us the best of the best in the county and surrounding counties. The customer base for our local meat producers is staggering! That speaks volumes about the trust that has been built between vendor and customer.

Our growers are beginning to show up with more and more produce. We have an AMAZING base of growers who are growing in new and different ways. I am excited to see the mingling of the established farmers beside these young and up and coming farmers. They are all learning from each other but the common bond is that they deliver the highest quality of what they are producing.

Our herbs, flours, and spices and garlic are all from local, chemical free farms, doing all of the work, all on their own. Long hours, a belief in what they are doing, and building a huge customer following through educating the customer, letting product tastings do the talking, and knowing that their season is short, so the excitement builds, each spring and summer, with these amazing products!

We have over the top, local berry and asparagus farms that bring in their seasonal products that are at the height of their flavor and nutrition. If you want to know excitement, sit with me, behind the computer screen as asparagus/strawberry/raspberry seasons all unfold…it’s a frenzy to watch!!

Local dairy is the freshest you will find and arrives to us, each week, ready to meet the great customer demands!

Our local fresh water fish farm delivers to our market and the customers are pleased to have so many of the options that come with the freshwater fish!

We have several jam, honey, and maple syrup vendors, as well as sorghum molasses…all with huge customer followings, all different products, all ready to fill the need of each customer!

Hands down, we do LOCAL, we are LOCAL, we are growing in numbers, we show no signs of slowing down, our only vision is how can we move to the next level, how can we bring even more customers into this little local love fest? How do we always tell our loyal local lovelies how much we always, always, appreciate their business?

We are all in this, together. We all want local, we all want to share the local love, and we all want the market to exceed beyond our wildest imaginations.

So, take a bit of time, today, to plan your week. It is a holiday week which means it is going to get crazy for you. If you take a few quiet moments, now, to place your orders for your weekly needs and for your July 4th weekend needs, you will be happy, relieved, stress free, and ready to celebrate.

Turn on your love light while we turn on our love light. Together, we are making this little local love fest really happen!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam