Golden Road of Unlimited Devotion

Well everybody’s dancin’ in a ring around the sun
Nobody’s finished, we ain’t even begun.
So take off your shoes, child, and take off your hat.
Try on your wings and find our where it’s at.
(Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion-The Grateful Dead)

Well, the sun and the heat feel like it’s early July, but the calendar and the early dark evening tell us it’s pushing right on with September.

September…the month of endings and beginnings. The golden opportunity month, I like to call it. The glittery gold ways that feel good when you are basking in them.

It’s the end of the physical farmers’ markets, it’s the end of festival season, and it’s the beginning of the beauty and tranquility that come with the changing of the seasons, the changing of the weather, the changing of the color scheme.

I open the market, this week, with nothing but beginnings in mind. The hot summer, the hard growing season, it’s all almost behind us. What we have to look forward to is the bounty of the fall season, a year round market that brings you the best of the best, and a chance to buy, spend, and support local products!!

Let us be your Golden Road of Unlimited Devotion…let us be your colorful path to all things local. Let us help you dance around a ring of rock stars of local…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Hello...

The holiday weekend has now officially come to a close, it’s Tuesday evening, not the Monday evening that it seems like, and we are looking at closing the market for the week.

The holiday weeks always seem to mess this market up a bit so I am going to leave it open until 11pm, this evening, so that everyone can race, run, speed to the market site and get their orders in!

I apologize for being a bit of a slacker on the Weblog front, this weekend. I took a bit of time off, and then I went to be with one of my oldest, and closest friends while their son is in the hospital in Dayton.

But, I am on it, now, and I want to see those orders flowing in!!!!

You have extra time…let’s get this party started!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

September

Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our souls were singing.
As we danced in the night,
Remember how the stars stole the night away

Ba de ya, say do you remember
Ba de ya, dancing in September
Ba de ya, never was a cloudy day
(September-Earth, Wind, and Fire)

Well, if we are going to do this September thing, we may as well usher it in with a funky disco beat!! Make it fun, make it your own, make it a dance worthy preface to later in the month when we give way to autumn days.

Wow, like, seriously…September, man? Wasn’t I JUST beginning the crazy, market season months? The prelude to the summer heatwave? Well, those months just sort of raced by, giving way to a bit of relief from the Heat Draining Months of 2016.

This is the time of year, if you vend multiple markets, manage a couple of them, own a shop, bake your life away, and co-own another business, where your life finally goes back to just a regular crazy instead of a high octane crazy!! A time where you can stop, bask in the golden sun, enjoy the crisp breezes, and experience a rebirth of sorts.

The oncoming tease of fall always makes me feel like I am on the edge of rebirth, friskiness, open to adventure, and a general energy that only comes with the lull of time between heat wave and arctic tundra.

September…love it, embrace it, work it, caress it, savor it, and take advantage of what it has to offer!

Enter our market…still full of late season produce!! An additional egg vendor!! The incoming new dairy options!! Goodbye to some of our favorite summer produce, only to say hello to the next season!!

This market is dancing in September…won’t you join us?

Peace, Love, Groovy Tunes…
Cosmic Pam

A Market Announcement!

Vendors and customers, tonight!!

The YMCA is on their annual shutdown, but the market will operate as per usual!!

A huge thank you to the staff for allowing us to do this!!

Much Love,
Cosmic Pam

Hey, Now, You're a Rock Star!

Yes…you, and you, and all of us, and especially this market!

Go ahead!! Shoot us into even more of a rock star status by placing your orders before 10pm, this evening!

That’s right…it’s Tuesday!! I know that with the first weeks of school, the impending holiday, it’s all a blur of activity. Just don’t forget that when you order with us, you are actually making strides in easing your load, helping with your stress, and opening up the option to eat, shop, and spend, locally…

Go ahead…be a rock star!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Hey, Now, You're a Rock Star!

Yes…you, and you, and all of us, and especially this market!

Go ahead!! Shoot us into even more of a rock star status by placing your orders before 10pm, this evening!

That’s right…it’s Tuesday!! I know that with the first weeks of school, the impending holiday, it’s all a blur of activity. Just don’t forget that when you order with us, you are actually making strides in easing your load, helping with your stress, and opening up the option to eat, shop, and spend, locally…

Go ahead…be a rock star!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Same In Any Language

He said everything wordlessly…
Wanderlust in my eyes, he did see…
Oh yea…
(Same In Any Language-My Morning Jacket/Ruckus)From the movie, Elizabethtown…

So, you all know that your market manager, the Hippie Bakestress spends her mornings, and nights, baking. Manages markets, operates her downtown shop, serves on the local foods council, vends markets/events/festivals, spends the early part of her summers helping with Art Affair On The Square, and, most recently, helped kick off the newest business venture, Hippie and the Farmer, LLC. So, after yesterday’s market in Springfield, on the flip side of Thursday’s crazy night market down at the Springfield Farmers Market, it was no surprise that a decompressing day was in order.

I went into hiding with blankets and pillows, closed the world out, and lost myself in two of my all time favorite flicks. Almost Famous and Elizabethtown.

Elizabethtown is one of the most underrated movies, ever. But, it always speaks to me, from a time before I was the Hippie Bakestress. From a time that one girl, drove cross country, from California to North Carolina, not only for transferring to a new city as a flight attendant, (Claire is a flight attendant in the movie), but also this girl needed to take a soul journey. Finding myself, knowing myself, getting ready to take on yet another city, all needed me to just be at one with me, my car, a ton of road maps, a box of mixed tapes, and only myself for company. Drew was on the same soul quest as he took off with his dad’s ashes, in the movie.

Soul journeys…everyone needs them. I am glad that my soul journey was before Suri, before ITunes, before cell phones. I had to get lost, many, many times, on that journey. I got to watch the sunrises, and sunsets in many different settings. It was one cassette tape after another. Just the girl, her thoughts, her music, and her drive across the country, to finally meet herself, along the way.

I run my businesses in much the same way…each business is it’s own soul journey. My breads, the clothing, the Hippie of Hippie and the Farmer, the lifestyle…it all started, long, long ago on that soul searching drive.

If you ever get the time, watch the movie. Or, put the soundtrack on as your backdrop music. However you need to take your own soul journey, I strongly suggest it.

Just like this market, as it soul vibes along it’s way, each and every week. The vendors, the customers, we all have pieces and parts of our souls in this market.

Last week, I had the chance to speak about our little local market of love in an informal meeting. And, the thing that struck me, inside, as I was listening to myself speak, was how much of my soul goes into this one market. My pride, my pleasure, my weekly chance to bring you all to find that small soul in all that we have to offer, to give you, to nourish you…

Soul searching…it will take you wherever it is you desire…

We have many amazing items on the market, many new seasonal items that you need to grab before they go out of season.

Take a look, place your order, make it your small little soul journey, this week…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Live!

Once again, we are live, and ready to rock it!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes!

Cosmic Pam

Look At The Time!

The time has come to tell you that it’s almost a wrap for this week!

Go, order, and show some love!

Your market manager has had a sad weekend concerning a friend, and did not get to update the weblog or remind you to order!

Let’s have this reminder get your orders in!

I will check back in a few!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Let's Work Together

Oh well now, come on you people…
Walk hand in hand…
Let’s make this world of ours…
A good place to stand…
(Let’s Work Together-Canned Heat)

One of my favorite tunes that I always forget about, and then it will pop up on my Pandora, and I fall in love with it, all over again.

Such a fitting thought for this little local market of love. If vendors, customers, and the community, all walk, hand in hand, not only does it strengthen our market, but it helps the whole local vibe.

And, don’t we all just want to vibe along, happily, making it all a beautiful place?

I am opening the market for the week!! Thank you to all who ordered, this week!! We seem to be adding products, weekly!! I urge everyone to try our market, just one time, for even just one item, to get to know us…we promise, you will find it a good place to stand…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam