The Weblog
The local foods movement is alive and well in Champaign County! Here are some updates on other projects while we finalize our virtual market:
Local Producers Map:
Our local producers map is ready for publication and you will soon be able to find it on gochampaign.com. Copies will be distributed around the community, in the local telephone book, and other “hangouts”. The guide lists the location and contact information for nearly 50 local producers within our county. The map was a project of the Local Food Council and printed with the help of some local sponsors including the Monument Square District, Champaign Bank, the Community Improvement Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau and others. It is a great start to finding a local source for Champaign County’s finest!
The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
Hello, little local market of love customers!
Your market manager is crazy busy with baking, catering, and delivering but I wanted to take this time to wish everyone a very happy, love filled holiday!!
I feel like we are all a little family with local vibes, and love filled jives!! I value the customers, vendors, and staff of the YMCA for becoming friends, local believers, and market makers!!
We are the doers and shakers of this local food scene, and I am proud to boast that this market remains strong, vibrant, and dear to my heart!!
Thank you for allowing me to manage your market, allow me access into your lives with this Weblog, and allowing our market to serve you, each and every week!
Also, a reminder that we are closed, this week, but will reopen on December 28th!!
While we approach the new year, we approach year 6 in our market history!! We could not do it without each of you!! The Local Gang!!
May you each know good health, love, and compassion in the new year!
This is my love letter to you…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
We Are Stardust
Hello, little local market of love!
A reminder that the market will close, at 8am, this morning!
We will then be closed the next week!!
We hope that you have an amazing holiday, and we will see you, in the new year!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
One Week!
We are opening the market, again, for one more week, before we take a week off at Christmas!!
So, get your orders in!!
XOXO,
Happy, Merry, Love
Reminder!
The market will close at 8am!!
Get your motors running!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Christmas-Local Style!
Support:
The Makers,
The Movers,
The Shakers,
This Christmas…
How can you do that??
Well, you can order from our market!!
AND…
On Thursday, during the hours of 4pm-6pm, you can also have the chance to shop in our Christmas Vendor Pop Up Market, in the lobby of the YMCA, this Thursday, during market pick up!!
Even if you do not need to order, this week, you can still grab a friend, a family member, a neighbor, and plan to shop our Christmas Pop Up Market for gifts that are local, unique, and that reflect our dedication to our growers, producers, artisans…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Welcome Back!
Once again, we are live! And, open for another week of market fun!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Almost Time!
The market is about to close for the week…do we have your orders??
Go, race…you have about 10 minutes!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Merry Everything! Happy Always!
Good morning!! It’s Tuesday, and I am just here to remind you that you have until tomorrow, at 8am, to get your orders in!!
In case you didn’t notice, we have Davidson Family Growers back with us!! It you have been missing his greens and lettuces, get yours, now!!
We have some holiday gift packages, available from some of the vendors, AND, we have a special, on site Christmas market planned for you, in the lobby of the YMCA, on Thursday, December 14th!! Vendor set up will begin between 3pm-3:30pm, and they are ALL kinds of excited to have this pop up market, right inside the lobby!! Make plans to attend!!
Also…we will be closing the market for the week of Christmas. So, we will not have a market on the 28th, but we will be back the next week!! Make sure to plan ahead for your ordering needs!!
And, as a reminder…our market has so many unique and locally produced items, that your Christmas gift list recipients would be so excited to receive! Browse through, and look at all of the possibilities!!
Okay…go, get your orders in, and remember to be merry and bright!!
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Welcome Back!!
A new week, a new month that begins, and a whole new opportunity for ordering from your favorite little market of love…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam
Our House
I’ll light the fire while you place the flowers in the vase that you bought today…
(Our House-Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)
As we near the last days of November, and look ahead to the next month, my mind immediately goes into overdrive.
The thoughts of the hustle and bustle of the holidays, the planning, the shopping, the baking, the travel, the events, the family, the excitement…it can be a little overwhelming if you look at the whole big picture.
I am that person who easily shuts down the minute that I try to look at the whole thing, the whole equation, the big picture. I like simplicity, the ease of things, the peace and love of things…of course I know that the holiday season is about peace and love, but if I look too closely at jammed schedules, events, people, places…I zone.
We all get that way, and that is why our little local market of love can be so helpful in these busy weeks.
Think of us as your comfort place, your ease of ordering and buying all that you will need to feed your family and guests. All that you will need for your baking. All that you will need for lighting your home with candles to make it cozy, soaps to stock the rooms with or for quick gift ideas. Oils for diffusing throughout the house…
We truly have it all, right here, in your own backyard, where we all come together in our own house…this market, our house…
This morning we close the market for the week. Your market manager has been crazy busy with the Thanksgiving holiday, a weekend away, and then a crazy busy event, yesterday. As I ease back into the real world, I am going to make my own life easier, by ordering from the market. And, as my early December gift to you, I am going to leave the market open until 9am, this morning.
So, you get an extra hour, extra time to think about what you need for the week…
XOXO,
Cosmic Pam