Wild Child

She’s a wild child…
Got a rebel soul with a whole lot of gypsy wild style…

(Kenny Chesney/Grace Potter – Wild Child)

Wild child…exactly how I feel about this little local market of love. We are so close to celebrating our fifth year since opening our doors, er, our computers, to the public!!

Back in the days of planning, the days of dreaming, the days of wondering just where this market would take us, the potential, or, the unspoken…what if we fail??

Well, we see THAT didn’t happen. Yes, we were very unsure in the beginning. Very new, very cutting edge, very much a new way of shopping a farmer’s market. We were the wild card of markets. The wild child. The market that decided to pave it’s own way, be it’s own kind of market, make it all happen on it’s terms.

It’s not easy being the wild child. But, just like a wild child, this market was built on taking chances, jumping right into things to see what would work, spreading love of local wherever we went, and building our community bond, each and every day.

When you step into the unknown, it’s always a wild card move. It takes a whole lot of trust, determination, dedication, loyalty, and love…it’s all you’ve got going for you, and it’s up to the wild child or as our market has many wild vendors, to pave the way…to where nobody dared go before. Because it’s the wild ones, the wild thinkers, the wild chance takers, that get things done!

If you have been along for our wild ride, we love you, we cherish you, and we look forward to many, many years in a flourishing, wild child, little local market of love!!

Get to know us, continue with us, or love us as you have been…just like the wild child vendors, our customers are wild at heart for coming along…

The market is open, we are looking at our first day of spring, and it’s a sunshine kind of morning!

Perfect to get a little wild…perfect to place your orders!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

In The Midnight Hour

Hello, good evening, good morning…we are on the cusp of both as I open this market, rather late, this evening.

The week has been crazy, the day has been crazy, and I just walked in the door. A bit before midnight…

So, here’s to you, this market, and the amazing vendors who bring us the most amazing products!

Your market manager is heading to dreamland. In the midnight hour…

The market is now open…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Boogie On!!

Hey, now…it’s Tuesday evening!! Where did the time go??

Your market manager has been running to meetings, movin’ and groovin’, and tonight is getting ready for an event, tomorrow evening, featuring the new business that I have formed with your other market manager, Mark!

More news to come, soon, about what Hippie and the Farmer, the new business is doing, where you can find us, what events are happening, and what we are all about!!

So, as I am busy, this evening, I am also reminding you that you have until 10pm, to get your ordering on! Get your boogie shoes on! Rock on down, and place your orders with the market you love!!

We are seeing the return of sooooo many familiar yet absent faces of customers, this week!! We say, welcome back, we missed you, and our little local market of love is always open to you!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Lovely Lavender

Swisher Hill Herbs is gearing up for spring. As we welcome spring we start packing away those winter clothes for the season. If you like the more natural approach to moth proofing your closets and drawers, lavender is your friend! Lavender is a natural flea and moth repellent.

As I pack away coats and jackets I tuck Lavender sachets in pockets and in drawers with sweaters and blankets, I also rub lavender oil on unfinished wood closet shelves, I put drops of lavender oil in the corners of every room on baseboards and on carpeted floors.

Swisher Hill Herbs have information handouts with recipes and hints to help guide you. contact us swisherhillherbs@gmail.com

Our aromatherapy products are in the featured products section of the www.champaignoh.locallygrown.net check us out.

Can't Stop This Love

You can’t stop this love…
(Daniel Dye and the Miller Road Band)

Tonight we open the market up for the week!! It was a great market week, last week, with an amazing market order pick up night, tonight!!

When I am working the market, I always am taken over by just how much I love this little market of love. How much happiness this market brings. How communal, and love filled, and giving, and sharing…it’s a love fest of community.

Local. Where local meets local meets local. I am so proud of this market, the vendors that come to us, each and every week, the community who supports us, the YMCA for housing and supporting us, and for the cross promoting with like minded, local spirited, entities.

We love you all!! Your two market managers are excited to take this market to levels that we have never experienced. We are excited to make announcements, work with the vendors, educate the customers and community, and to help elevate the already exploding market sales!!

When you have passionate, like minded, dedicated market managers, you just can’t stop this love…the local love that was created in this market, almost 5 years ago. We have grown, learned, planned…and now…you can’t stop this!!

A HUGE shout out about the song of choice, tonight, from a family who really can’t stop their love of each other, their community, and the local movement.

We all go hand in hand…we are all this local love quest…

The market opens, tonight, for all of your ordering needs!!

Thank you, for your never ending love…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Let's Go Crazy!!

This market is having a HUGE kind of excitement happening, behind the scenes!! Your orders are pouring in, the numbers are going crazy, and we still have until 10pm!!

Oh, no, let’s go!!

Last reminder…just do it!! Make it even crazier!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Keep On, Keepin' On!

The market is crazy with activity, tonight!! Everyone must be taking my advice to take advantage of this amazing weather to make them feel all sunshine, smiles, and ready for market goodness!!

Go, order, you have until 10pm!!

Let’s make this a SUPER shiny day, night, week!! Shine your love on us!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

I Can See Clearly Now

I can see clearly now the rain is gone…
I can see all obstacles in my way…
Here is that rainbow I’ve been praying for…
It’s gonna be a bright, bright, sunshiny day…
(I Can See Clearly Now…Johnny Nash)

Here we are, spring weather, sunshine, warm temperatures!!

Why not celebrate this journey into the mildness of lovely weather with an order for this little local market of love??

We close the market, tonight, at 10pm, for the week!! Don’t be dark and gray when you could just order and be bright and sunshine yellow!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Suite Judy Blue Eyes-An Ode To Cosmic Charlie

I’ve got an answer…
I’m going to fly away…
What have I got to lose?…
Will you come see me…
Thursdays and Saturdays…
What have you got to lose…
(Suite Judy Blue Eyes-Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)

Ok…I have been revisiting many of my favorite pieces of vinyl, this week. In times of stress, or extreme busy days, weeks, months, it grounds me, calms me, to flip through my vinyl collection.

I have put one of my favorites on play, all week long. Deja Vu by CSN&Y…go, now, grab your copy, pull up your playlist, download it…soul changing, earth moving, love connecting…

It’s a dreary Saturday morning, I have loaves of breads, rolls, goodness all cooling in the kitchen, and I am preparing to leave for my shop, downtown.

I was up, before the dawn, as usual. One of my favorite times of the day is the early morning when I bake. My colorful kitchen greets me, coffee brews, and I begin the process of assembling the different varieties of dough that will become beautiful loaves of breads for my customers, my shop, this market, the restaurants where I am featured…it fills me with such pride and happiness to have this as my morning routine. My ritual of love. My passion for local, the scene, the people, the producers, the markets, the food.

My days are so busy, so packed with meetings, planning committees, managing markets, running my shop, carving out time for my circle of friends, launching yet another business, that this early morning of baking, coffee drinking, music listening, in the soft, quiet light of my kitchen, is what connects my soul back to myself. Baking my breads is humbling, passionate, rewarding, and is a reflection of all things that are me. The way that I bake, the ingredients that I use, the fact that I am a vegan baker…they reflect me, the person, as well as the hippie girl who wears many, many hats.

When you become part of my Bread World, you become a Bread Head. Modeled after my years and years of following the Grateful Dead…when I was/still am a Dead Head.

In my little hippie way of life, and in my baking, I hope to bring love to everyone. I like to think that with my clean food, local food, seasonal/organic when not in season, belief, will help to change the world. Or my community. Or even just one person.

When you step into my shop, you are stepping into a sensory filled, colorful, music fueled adventure. You get my breads, all lined up in their bags on my shelves. You get an array of local products from local vendors of this market. You get colorful threads that are a mixture of vintage and hippie clothes. You get the faint essence of patchouli. The music reflects my eclectic musical taste. There are prints hanging all over, of rock star icons, black and white collages of 60s and 70s models/band muses, and colorful streamers, dancing bears, and a window that has become the talk of the downtown for it’s lighted whimsy.

My shop, my breads, my threads, this market, all wrapped up in a colorful kaleidoscope package, to reflect me, the hippie, the bakestress, the shop girl, the market manager…and my love that is this local community. My passions all coming at you…ready or not, in this quest to bring more and more local to the front and center.

My earliest description of my first breads, 7 years ago, was this…

Cosmic Charlie Baking and Bread…Made with love in my heart and a song in my head…Reflecting my devotion to The Grateful Dead..

And there you have it…the bakestress, the girl about town, your market manager…and one hippie’s quest for the best of the best in local love…

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Our Favorite Soaps!! On Sale!!

Laura sent the market some really great news!!! She has limited soap varieties on a really super great sale, right now!! Grab them while you still can!!

Thanks, Laura!!

Flash sale on soap! Limited quantities of certain scents are temporarily marked down to $4/bar! Quantities shown are exact number available. Get ‘em while you can! Scents on sale are: Tea Tree, Cedarwood & Lemon Eucalyptus, Thieves Blend, and Frankincense & Myrrh. Our soaps are made with food-grade organic coconut, palm and olive oils and we only use essential oils for the scent…NO synthetic fragrances!

Laura Miller

ELM Tree Essentials

937.524.5411

www.elmtreeessentials.com