Hey, Now!!!

So…I cannot even tell you how excited I am to announce that this week’s market is breaking all records!!!!

You all are giving us the best Christmas gift, ever!!

You have until 10pm, tonight, to get your orders in…don’t miss out on the holiday frenzy!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

A Cosmic Christmas!

The girl works at the store, sweet Jane St. Clair…
Was dazzled by her smile while I shopped there..(Jane-Barenaked Ladies)

My Cosmic Christmas special to all little market of love customers is the introduction of my new Cosmic bread…Sweet Jane!!

It’s a vegan, chocolate bread with a organic sugar coated top! And, for this last market of the year, I offer this to you at the special price of $3.00!! I debuted, Sweet Jane, short for, Jane St. Clair, a name in one of my favorite songs, last weekend in the Cosmic shop. Total crazed reviews on how good it was!!

Order a loaf or two or three for your freezer!! Sweet Jane is one sweet deal!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam

Have A Very Berry Christmas!

There is nothing more luscious than Champaign Berry Farm Red or Black Raspberry Sauce drizzled on homemade New York Style Cheesecake! Check out the cheesecake recipe on our website at champaaignberryfarm.com – look for recipes under the Harvest tab. The cheesecake recipe originated with our son, Matt, who makes this tasty dessert for every Thanksgiving and Christmas! Another special treat is our Red Raspberry Jalapeno Jam covering a block of cream cheese and served with crackers or tortilla chips. It is a wonderful appetizer or snack. Our jams and sauces also make wonderful stocking stuffers or gifts for the mailperson, paper delivery person, teachers, bosses or co-workers!

The Gift Of Garlic!

JC Growers ohiogarlicgrowers.com has made available to champaignoh.locallygrown.net The Virtual Market our 2015 Gifts of Gourmet Garlic Exclusive. Each collection is made up of locally grown, chemical free, gourmet garlic spices and glazes based on top sales for 2015. There are five unique collections available for the first time and final week before Christmas to our virtual family. “Gourmet Garlic Essentials”, “The Gourmet Garlic Flake Collection”, “The Gourmet Garlic Smoked Collection”, “The Gourmet Garlic Roasted Collection” and finaly "The Black Garlic Collection. Everything that we do at Cripple Creek Farm located in Mechanicsburg, Ohio is done by hand, planting, weeding, digging, hanging, cleaning, peeling, drying, grinding, processing and packaging. The best of the best from our farm to your table. Merry Christmas!

Correction!

Some of the printed customer letters, and a Weblog from Swisher Hill Herbs, mistakenly listed a wrong date for our market…

The market will have order pick up, this Thursday evening. We will then be closed for the two weeks of the holiday. I will reopen the market for ordering, on December 31, 2015!

Thank you!

Cosmic Pam

New Vendor Spotlight!! Ella Bella!

We discovered a while back that our youngest Elizabeth– just 1 1/2 at the time– had a gluten intolerance. This was not a new disease for me; my mother is also gluten intolerant, and has been for 20 years. Since I had some history, I had a pretty good idea of what foods were available on the market in Dayton Ohio. I searched for new stores, tried new things. I found that dinners and snacks would not be a problem –eat whole foods. Foods from the vegetable and meat departments are not processed, so there is no way to have gluten introduced. My problem was with desserts. Everything I tried was disgusting, expensive and didn’t taste like the real thing.

I started experimenting with gluten free all purpose flour mixtures in February 2011. I wanted my daughter to be able to eat what the other kids were eating. And if those other kids came to our house, I wanted them to eat my daughter’s food, and not spit it out because it tasted icky. I knew what I wanted, how was I to get there? I started with 4 different AP flour mixes and made chocolate chip cookies. Thankfully, I have very hungry and not shy co-workers and friends. I had them rate the cookies based on color, texture, and taste. I got honest and constructive feedback. I went back to the test-kitchen and made more tweaks, added more of this, and less of that. Again I took them to my tasters. This happened several times, until I had a winner!

I knew I had come up with a good idea. I wanted to sell my baked goods to others who were gluten intolerant and also to celiacs. I worked with a friend (Chris Vallo) to make a great logo. My husband started marketing to the local restaurants and stores. Ella Bella was in business. We are still a small business but are growing every month.

My philosophy of providing my family with the best possible food also extends to Ella Bella. I mix my own gluten free all purpose flour with all natural and organic flours. I make my own vanilla, using non-grained based vodka. I buy organic butter, local organic eggs. In short, I use only high-quality ingredients to make high-quality baked goods.

Mandy
Ella Bella

Gluten Free Flour, and Mixes

www.ellabellaGF.com

937-319-1754

2000 Miles

He’s gone two thousand miles…
It’s very far…
The snow is falling down…
Gets colder day by day…
I miss you…

I can hear people singing…
It must be Christmas time…
I hear people singing…
It must be Christmas time…
(Pretenders – 2000 Miles-Written by Chrissie Hynde)

This song will always and forever be my favorite Christmas song. I was a HUGE Pretenders fan, am still always blown away by Chrissie’s voice, and each year in college, followed by my years as a flight attendant, would find me falling into shops, clubs, airports, to be reconnected with this song, and just wanting to get home for the holidays.

This little market of love is just like that…going home for the holidays. Let us be your song, your light, your feeling of home…

To add to the excitement of the season, your market managers are adding more and more new, amazing vendors!

You have already met a few of the new vendors over the past couple of weeks, and everyone seems to be enjoying their new products that they have introduced!

We love adding new stars to the local line up and connecting them to the Champaign Locally Grown family!

We now bring to you Mad Sweet Heat, EllaBella Flours/Mixes, and are looking forward to products from Robin’s Nest Granola!

Mad Sweet Heat is an amazing unique product out of Springfield. It is a sweet jalapeno pepper with just enough kick that we are sure it will be a new favorite among the locally grown customers! Make sure to go to the Growers part of the market and read all about them, their product, and their production! They are offered in retail shops, all over, and we are excited that they are now a vendor at our market!

I had the pleasure of being able to meet and chat with Mandy from EllaBella flours and mixes! She brings us amazing gluten free flours, and mixes for cookies and brownies! We have a gluten free following, and we are happy to be able to offer them, EllaBella!

Robin’s Nest Granola is also a product out of Springfield. We were able to sample her products at The Clark County Food Summit. When she goes live with her products, she will be offering two unique flavors!

A reminder that this is the last market of 2015!!! We will be closed for the weeks of Christmas AND New Year’s. The next market will reopen on December 31, 2015, to ring in another year for this little local market of love!!!

Make sure to stock up on the products that you need, want, love!! We have all of your old favorites, we have the brand new in Mad Sweet Heat, and EllaBella, and we have our newest meat producers with Women That Farm!!

Make it a local holiday. Place your orders, now, for a holiday filled with products from your little local market of love!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
And THANK YOU for always being such great customers AND vendors!!

Cosmic Pam
Oakview Mark
Swisher Hill Charlene

Happy Holidays From Swisher Hill Herbs!

This week will be the last shopping week for the Champaign Ohio Locally Grown Virtual Market for the year 2015!!!
The market will close after the Market Day Dec. 17, 2015 and re-open for sales January 31,2015 for the first market pickup day January 7, 2016
You may call Swisher Hill Herbs for all of your Herbal shopping needs have over the holidays .We have set up a small Swisher Hill herbs shop in our home you may visit by appointment.
Herb Gift Sets, soup and chili mixes, dips, seasoning blends, dried herbs, essential oils, cinnamon sticks, mulled cider mix, vanilla beans, herb teas and herbs for blending your own teas, salsa mix and more. Phone: 937-653-8418
e-mail swisherhillherbs@gmail.com Ginger awaits your visit!
Take Thyme,
Joe and Charlene Stapleton

The Gift Of Soap!

Hello, lovely customers! I hope you are enjoying this beautiful weather!

This week, being the last market before Christmas, we are offering our gift sets at a discount! There are 5 Holiday Sets and 9 Fabulous 5 Sets available and we have marked them down to $13.50/set (reg $15)! Each set includes 5 half-size bars. Perfect gifts that are all packaged up and ready to give!
Holiday: Peppermint, Sweet Orange Clove, Holiday Spice, Frankincense & Myrrh, and O Christmas Tree.
Fabulous 5: Lemongrass, Tea Tree Lavender, Pink Grapefruit, Peppermint, and Sweet Orange Clove.

Pink Grapefruit bars are still on sale for $4/bar!

I hope you have a wonderful week!

Laura Miller

ELM Tree Essentials

937.524.5411

www.elmtreeessentials.com

The Market Is Now Open

Just a short and sweet market opening, tonight.

Your market manager is exhausted beyond exhaustion. It’s been a crazy 6 weeks of all things holiday, all things fast paced in the life of a downtown board member, a chair of Holiday Promotions, Santa Land, and the Holiday Gala. On top of that, all of you who have seen me, this past week, have seen my injury. On top of all this, there is my crazy baking schedule…

So, with this, I thank you all for this past week’s market, and making it a huge market!! I look forward to seeing you at this week’s market, AND…please remember…this coming week will be our last until after the holidays!!

Peace, Love, Good Vibes…
Cosmic Pam