Peachy Kind of Tuesday

Hey, little local market of love customers…

Guess what we just added to the market??

Champaign Berry just added peaches!!! The crowd goes wild!!

Go, order, get your amazing local products!! We are open, just until 10pm, tonight!! Don’t miss out on all the fun!!

Tuesday Reminder

Hello!!

Just a quick reminder, in the middle of all of your fair fun, that we are open, that we have all kinds of local goodness from produce, to honey, to mushrooms, to fresh garlic, to dried herbs and spices, to coffees, teas, fish, meats, breads, baked goods, candy, candles, maple syrup, eggs, sweet corn, exotic peppers, seasonal berries…just waiting for you!

We know you are busy with fair activities, back to school shopping, vacationing, and just generally enjoying these last weeks of freedom, but if you want to throw us an order or two, it would make us smile!! And it would make you smile!!

The market closes, tonight, at 10pm!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

It's Monday, Honey!

Oh, yes, sugar pie, honey bunch…

It really is Monday, and we now really do have HONEY!!

Go ahead, rush right in, grab your market list, and make sure to make honey part of your weekly shopping, this week!

We finally have local honey, again, and we are so excited to welcome, Dave!! Make sure to go the Growers tab to read all about him while we wait for him to write us, a bit more, about his honey!

Ok, enjoy the local county fair. And, then…get your honey!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

I'm Travelin' On

Been to California, been to Washington, too…
packed away my whole life, when I was lookin’ for you…
You’re not here, now, I’m travelin’ on…
(I’m Travelin’ On-The Coteries)

So, yeah…this is one of my new fav bands to listen to. They performed, locally, here, for us, in our very own local park. Courtesy of our very own local Arts Council. Travelled from North Carolina to perform, and they were an AWESOME show!! Such amazing talent, right here, like so much of our own local talent, performing, needing support, in our own little local community.

I have a HUGE soft spot for musicians, bands, music muses…all of it. And, big surprise, I have a HUGE thing for local. And, food. And, community. And, eating locally/seasonally. I have a HUGE soft spot for our local growers, producers, artisans. I have a HUGE soft spot for our downtown, our surrounding areas, and for all of the people who make this all happen. This scene we like to call local.

One of my favorite local guys is Brad Gregg of Gregg Family Farms. He comes to us from both Rosewood, and Mechanicsburg. He is a seasonal, familiar face up in the ’burg. One of the first vendors at that market, many years ago.

I manage that particular market, and it was such a welcome sight to see him all set up with his sweet corn, this past Tuesday. Up in Mechanicsburg, we run a growers only kind of market. That means our produce, this season, was a little late to get started, but when we hit our stride, it was a beautiful sight.

Brad helped with that sight, along with other local growers. And, now, he is here with us, at our little local market of love. His sweet corn, his exotic peppers…

And, how fitting that a local face comes back to us, the same time as another local fixture…tomorrow, we welcome in the Champaign County Fair!! A summer favorite, a local favorite, a local tradition steeped in local history.

So, here we are…no need to go travelin’ on…we’ve got it all, right here…

I open the market, tonight, to welcome you to our world of local…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Who Loves You, Baby?

Today, our little local market of love, and it’s market managers, are sending huge doses of love, good luck, good vibes, and a huge amount of pride down to our sister market in Miami County!!

Yes, after almost two years, the Miami County Locally Grown market is going LIVE, today!!!

And, at the helm? You know her from our market…it’s Jennifer from End Of The Road Farm!!

We have loved helping, advising, and listening to everyone involved with getting that market up, off, and running!!

Job well done, Brian!! You took the ball and ran with it, and now the market will rock under Jennifer’s management!!

I remember the excitement on the day that this market went LIVE!! And look at us, now!!

Who loves you, baby? We do!!

Much love, peace, and good vibes…
Cosmic Pam

The Time Is Now

The time is ticking away, and you do not want to miss out on this amazing market week!!

We are seeing an amazing market, amazing orders, and more and more additional vendors trying to get on, get their pages set up, and if not ready but tonight’s deadline, watch for them on Thursday at the market opening!

So, did you get your ’shroom fix?? Mushrooms? Organic mushrooms? Go, now, order…Jay is doing amazing, fungi kind of things in his organic facility!!

Produce…organically grown but not organically certified…a mixed box! Like a mixed bag of tricks!! For produce!! From the Hippie and the Farmer’s gardens!!!

To come…honey!!! Just waiting for Dave to get it all listed!!

Welcoming back…Brad Gregg of Gregg Family Farms!! Next week, he will bring us all of his exotic peppers, ghost peppers, and, and, wait for it…his amazing sweet corn!!

All of this newness PLUS all of the vendors and products that you know and love!! Meats, spices, herbs, raspberries, baking supplies, garlic, breads, baked goods, dog treats, jams/jellies, lettuces, greens, fish, coffee, teas, eggs, produce, soaps, syrups…we have got it GOIN’ on!!!

Ok, the market will close at 10pm…race, don’t walk…order!

Keep up the orders…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Oh, Honey!! Oh, Sugar, Sugar!

And, for more market fun, our new honey vendor, Dave, is about to make his market debut!!

Keep watching for my next Weblog as Dave gets ready to go live, today!!

Mushrooms, honey, and Hippie and the Farmer produce! Three new vendors in a few short days!

Keepin’ the Lovelight shining!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes!
Cosmic Pam

The Magic Mellow Mushroom

Well, little local market of love customers…you are in for a huge treat!!

Our market is so excited to welcome Jay Jenkins of Lakeview Organics to our vendor family!! And, to kick things off, he has put just one out of many varieties of his mushrooms on our market!!!! He has an AMAZING facility that he was nice enough to work around my schedule, and Mark’s schedule, the past few weeks. It was SO cool to see how he is growing things, what his plans are, and all that he will be soon offering, along with a future market field trip his place!!

I will let Jay write an intro to him, his partner, and what all they are doing!!

So…let’s all get excited…we’ve got mushrooms!!!! Go, order, be exotic!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Tuesday Tune

It’s Tuesday!! It’s pick your own tune, and groove it, day!! It’s Tuneful Tuesday!!

And, just like groovin’ to your own beat, your own tune, go ahead and place your orders as only you can! It’s an easy way to shop, you customize your own cart with only the items that you want or need!

Go ahead…see how easy it is to shop local, to make it all your own, to groove your own tune…

The market closes, tonight, at 10pm!! Think about all that we can offer you…think about the ease, the affordability, and the nutrition…

Sing your tune, place your order…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…

Woodstock

We are stardust…
We are golden…
And weve got to get ourselves…
Back to the garden…
(Woodstock-Joni Mitchell)

Introducing the newest duo to this little local market of love…

Hippie and the Farmer, LLC is a business that was formed between Cosmic Charlie Bread and Oakview Farm Meats. We offer, sell, distribute boxes of themed, once a month, boxes to individuals and corporations. Farm fresh goodness, just one field away, from our farm to your door. These boxes are packed with assorted frozen meats, produce, breads, seasonal local fruit, assorted other seasonal items, newsletters, recipes, menu plans, shopping lists, and fun music playlists. These boxes can be purchased by visiting our Facebook page at Hippie and the Farmer. The popularity of our boxes rests on the unknown theme, each month, and the surprise of the contents, each month!

BUT..HERE, NOW, FOR A LIMITED TIME, THIS SEASON…

We would like to offer Hippie and the Farmer mixed produce boxes to our online market, here! The produce comes from the three large gardens, on the farm, of Oakview Farm Meats, also the site of the Hippie and the Farmer, LLC fully licensed commercial kitchen.

We use all organic methods of growing in our gardens, but are not certified as organic!

We do local, we are local, we support local.

Hippie and the Farmer mixed produce boxes…a box of local love!

As we pick from our gardens, we will put these items in your boxes! The fun is in the mystery of what you will find! The picture would be a good example of the items, with other produce as well as fresh herbs, as we have them!

You love us and trust us as your market managers, and now you can love us and trust us as Hippie and the Farmer!