Long Live The Love!

Love you, Love your health, Love our wallet, Love your local community…

When you shop, locally, from THIS market, you get nothing but attention to you, your health, your wallet, and your local community!!

Let us hook you up to help you in your daily quest to keepin’ it all real, all local, all good…

The market is open until 10pm!! Get your orders rockin’ and rollin’!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Long Live The Love!

Love you, Love your health, Love our wallet, Love your local community…

When you shop, locally, from THIS market, you get nothing but attention to you, your health, your wallet, and your local community!!

Let us hook you up to help you in your daily quest to keepin’ it all real, all local, all good…

The market is open until 10pm!! Get your orders rockin’ and rollin’!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Thank You!!

Thank you for being the most awesome customers at the most awesome market showing us the most awesome kind of love…

Your market manager is beyond tired, tonight, and has a busy weekend planned! So, tonight is a short and sweet market opening…

Thanks, so much, for being such loyal customers!! We couldn’t rock this market without you!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

How Deep Is Your Love?

And you come to me on a summer breeze…
Keep me warm in your love and then… softly leave…
And it’s me you need to show…
How deep is your love?
(How Deep Is Your Love? Bee Gees)

So, yes…slow dance, anyone? 1977, anyone? That span of time, this music, my West Enders, our middle school, the gym decorated in the crepe paper décor of the times? The Snow Ball dance pick that always had you hoping for the coolest guy in your grade, but while you were busy applying your Bonne Bell Lip Smacker, you watched your cool guy pass right by you. The horror!! But, as silver linings always happen, you got asked to dance with the guy who would ultimately become your best friend, through thick and thin, way into life. Way into the now. The kind of friendship that stands the test of time.

And, where is that cool guy? Well, in a 1970s teen girl’s revenge, he would be crying his eyes out over his mistake in dance partners. But, in the here and now? The girl is just thankful for chances in life, and the chances that become the best moves…

What does this boogie down memory lane mean to this little market of love? Well…I guess I would just like you all to show us just how deep your love is! To take a chance on us, if you have STILL yet to choose us as a dance partner!! We are just as cool as the big box stores. We have so much to offer!! AND, we have the potential to be your life long friend!!

How Deep Is Your Love? Let’s play the Snow Ball Dance card, and see how you boogie!

The market is open until 10pm, tonight!! I will be waiting, applying my Bonne Bell, groovin’ in my bell bottoms, and waiting…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

All You Need Is Love...

…Love is all you need…
(Love Is All You Need-The Beatles)

Love really is all you need. Well, and local. And, us. Our little local market of love plus you equals all the love you could ever want or need.

We’ve got it all, and we bring it to you, each and every week!! To know us is to love us, and those of you who shop with us, weekly, truly understand that love. Those of you who shop with us every other week or so, you know our love runs deep. Those of you who STILL have never shopped…come and get your love…

Take a bit of time out of your love filled day, today, to show our market and vendors a bit of love…

We bring you amazing local products, real nutrition, affordable prices, ease of shopping, ease of order pick up, and we do it all with a smile!!

C’mon…who loves you, baby?

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

How Sweet It Is!

And, what would Valentine Weekend be without a little sweet talk??

Today, in our ongoing series about local love, and the love of our vendors, we get a sweet blog from Marc Stadler of Valley View Woodlands!!

You love their products, you love the artistic way that he and Shary bottle the syrups, many of you have been to one of their boils…and now, Marc gives us the sweet low down on their maple syrup process…

“Tis the season!” We refer to the maple season, of course. Here at Valley View Woodlands, that sweet season has begun. It means spending time in the woods during longer, beautiful, sunny days. It means boiling down the collected sap on our stainless steel evaporator, watching through the sweet steam.
We tapped our maple trees last week—earlier than usual because of the warmer el nino year. We tapped and had our first boil a full month earlier than we did during last year’s extremely cold winter. Our first boil on Monday yielded only a half-gallon of syrup after five hours of boiling. This is typical for the first boil of the season, as the sap in the evaporator has to be concentrated or “sweetened” before you can draw off significant amounts of syrup. As we boil we are raising the amount of sugar in the sap from 2.5 percent to 67 percent. This requires approximately 45 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup! That’s why maple syrup is so special.
Deciding when to tap is subject of great debate among “maple people.” Taps will stay open for four to six weeks before they naturally dry out and begin to grow closed. Tap too early and you won’t catch the runs later in the season. Tap too late and you miss the early runs. We hope we didn’t tap too early, and that we will catch some big runs in mid-February.
Temperatures are well below normal now—the trees are frozen and no sap is flowing. We have some time to prepare for the next warmup, which we hope will occur next week. Sap flows in the maple trees when we have nights below freezing and days above freezing. The freeze-thaw cycle not only pushes the sap out into the buckets but also makes it sweeter.
This is a great time of year to enjoy our syrup on buttery pancakes and waffles—well, that’s true for any time of year! We also enjoy our syrup on Greek yogurt in the morning. That’s a tasty high-protein breakfast.
Stay tuned as we hope to be busy next week collecting and boiling that sweet sap.
Marc Stadler
Valley View Woodlands

Matters Of The Heart

This month is all about the love, being in love, showing people how much you love them, (ALTHOUGH, it would be super groovy if EVERYDAY was a love fest to EVERYONE), but since we are approaching this Valentine weekend of love, let’s take a minute to love us, love our health, and spend some love time with a few matters of the heart…

Charlene from Swisher Hill Herbs has a very heartfelt blurb and product that is just now on the market!!

Thanks, always, Charlene and Joe!!

The first of this year the CDC and FDA came out with new salt consumption guidelines for the general public. They recommend 1 teaspoon of salt a day. This is not an impossible lifestyle change to achieve, especially thinking of our children and future generations. But we know cutting back on salt results in some foods being blah and lacking flavor. Thus you reach for the Salt.
Wait for it! Wait for it! Now we are coming to it. Seasoning with herbs and spices are here to save the day Swisher Hill herbs is on the way! As you know all of all of our products are salt free. This week we are introducing All-Season Salt Substitute to the Virtual market. As with all of our herbs, spices and seasoning blends, we offer you Save a Jar! Save Money! Refill bags for your jars when you run low. Check it out!

The Little Local Market Of Love

It’s what we are all about, it’s why we come here, to shop, it’s a way of eating, it’s a way of living…

Keeping up the love on the local front continues to get easier and easier, through our market.

I am opening the market for the week, and I just want to tell the vendors, the customers, my assistant managers, and the YMCA, how much you all fill me with local love!!

Let’s keep the lovelight shining…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Who Do You Love?

Well, who DO you love?? Your little local market of love??

If you are your love of choice, then please don’t forget to order for the week!! We close the market at 10pm, this evening, and we don’t want to leave you out in the cold….sobbing, and sad, and out of love because you forgot to get your order in!!

We have so much for you!! Think about what you need or want, and remember that it is Valentine weekend…can we help you with the matters of the heart?

Come on…show us some love while we show you some love…

See you at 10pm!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

The Look Of Love!

Happy Monday, little local market of LOVE customers!!

I hope your weekends were super amazing, and I hope everyone enjoyed the Super Bowl, last night!!

This week kicks off the week of LOVE, here, at our market, because this is the week that you will want to think about your Valentine! Our market is perfect for gifts of food, gifts of candles, gifts of soaps, gifts of candy…well, you get my theme…you can’t go wrong in celebrating the week of love with our market items!!

I have a quick note from GaGa’s Goodies…she puts the sweet in your sweetest of celebrations!

I have buckeye heart shaped Valentine’s $6.00 a dozen. They are like the chocolate buckeyes but shaped in a heart and can be white, chocolate, pink or red and drizzled. I also have pretzel rods dipped in red or pink chocolate and drizzled with white chocolate. Those are also $6.00 a dozen!

AND! She has chocolate covered strawberries that are 7.00 a doze. Choc and white choc drizzled in red, pink and white :)

Come on…show us some LOVE, and in turn, show your Valentine some love!!

Don’t forget…we have treats for your most beloved dogs on Valentine’s Day, too!!

The Look Of Love…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam