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The local foods movement is alive and well in Champaign County! Here are some updates on other projects while we finalize our virtual market:

Local Producers Map:
Our local producers map is ready for publication and you will soon be able to find it on gochampaign.com. Copies will be distributed around the community, in the local telephone book, and other “hangouts”. The guide lists the location and contact information for nearly 50 local producers within our county. The map was a project of the Local Food Council and printed with the help of some local sponsors including the Monument Square District, Champaign Bank, the Community Improvement Corporation, the Chamber of Commerce, the Farm Bureau and others. It is a great start to finding a local source for Champaign County’s finest!



 
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Ladies and Gentlemen...


Once again, we thank you for ordering local, giving us a chance to bring you the local goodness, and for always supporting our market!!

If you ordered, we thank you from the bottom of our heart! If you didn’t get to order, we will see you, next time!!

Have a lovely week and we will see you on Thursday!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Last Call!


It’s 7:45 on a Tuesday…that can only mean it’s the local last call!!

If you still want to order, please proceed to the market, and then to the check out!! We don’t want anyone to miss out on their local goodness!

You now have 15 minutes…make it work!

Time...


Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’
Into the future…(Fly Like An Eagle-Steve Miller Band)

Don’t let the time slip away from you, tonight!! You have a little over two hours before I close the market for the week! It’s a great market so let’s make it even better by nobody getting left out or running out of time!

Give us your time, let us give you our attention, let us help you make the rest of your week very easy!

Go ahead…get your orders ready before you let it all slip away for the week..

Take It Easy!


Take it easy, take it easy
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels
Make you crazy…(Take It Easy-The Eagles)

It’s what we want for you…to just take it easy, let us do all of the work, ease your mind…all you have to do is order from our little local market!

This is the time of year that gets super busy and super crazy! You want to ease into the months of summer but first you have to pass GO at lightening speed! End of the year school obligations, graduations, sports, figuring out summer plans, transitioning to kids being home…just crazy times!!

You worry about all of that while we worry about taking care of you! Sneak off, take a bit of time, all to yourself, start your shopping for the week, make your selections, and then, voila! We have it all ready for you on Thursday! You shopped, you did it locally, you did it with ease…

Because, in the whole scheme of things, don’t you deserve to take it easy?

Today is Tuesday, the market will close, tonight, at 8pm. We can only make it easy on you if you let us:)

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Monday, Monday...


Monday, Monday, so good to me..(Monday, Monday, The Mamas and The Papas)

Just a quick Monday note to remind you to be good to yourself!! Start your week by placing your orders, with us, and let us do all of the work, for you!!

We have so many products, so many amazing vendors, and such an awesome market that grows with each week!

Make Monday good for you…check out the weekly specials, what’s new, and I am even adding a Cosmic Coupon of Love to this week’s market, again!! The last winning Bread Head was Tracy Bleim!

We can be your Monday feel good plan!! All you need to do is order…

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Good Love!


Just an update with a new egg vendor!!

The vendor is not new to us…it is our lovely little, End Of The Road Farm…the same vendors who bring us the popcorn, spelt flour, and molasses! Now, they have entered their pastured eggs, as well!

Our egg demand is high so we bring you eggs from Oakview Farm Meats, End Of The Road Farm, and Lonny’s Green Acres.

Good eggs…good love…all for you!

New Mother Nature


…Cause it’s the new Mother Nature takin’ over
It’s the new splendid lady come to call
It’s the new Mother Nature takin’ over
She’s gettin’ us all, she’s gettin’ us all…
(Guess Who – New Mother Nature)

Sending out very happy, and love filled wishes to all of the lovely women of our little market, on today, Mother’s Day! Mothers of children, pets, friends, nature…mothering of anything/anyone is a beautiful thing.

I have always been a very open, very loving, very expressive person. Early on, I was always the natural mother of my friend circles. In my different groups, in my different decades, I have always filled that role. I sensed when I needed to stick up for a friend, freely give out hugs, feed souls, listen, laugh, cry, help.

Recently, my old group of pals from elementary/middle school, have all reconnected. Old pictures have been surfacing, fast and furious, on Facebook. Young faces, young dreams, young smiles. Even in these pictures, I am in the middle, arms around everyone, tending to all needs. I was lucky enough to grow up in a neighborhood, the West End, where it was all kids, it was the 1970s, we were free to just be. Our mothers just pushed us all the door, told us to get on our bikes, and that was it. We fended for ourselves. But, I felt that while I was all about fun and games, I needed to keep a watchful eye. The years where I was the mom to friends, was just getting me ready to be the mother to my own Little Miss Sunshine.

My early love of gardening, planting seeds with my grandfather, learning all about his love of nature, gave me a mothering instinct to all things around us.

It takes many components to be a mother to anything or anyone. I like to think that since there is no real life manual, you learn with a dose of love, a dose of compassion, and open arms at all times.

This little market has become my little mothering act of love. From the customers, to the vendors, to the YMCA, to the products. It’s a love circle that needs constant mothering, watching, nurturing…I feel myself, once again, stepping into the natural role of mothering.

So, today, I give you the Sunday market reminder and happy wishes for a beautiful day from the market that I now mother over:)

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

Will You Come With Me?


Now think this through with me, let me know your mind
Whoa oh, what I want to know is, are you kind

…Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead, Uncle John’s Band Lyrics)

And, all of our customers are so very kind, very awesome!!

I am opening the market, tonight, and saying a huge thank you to all who support our market, each week, with orders, kindness, compliments, and cheer!! You are amazing to greet, each week, and when say we appreciate you, we mean it from the bottom of our hearts!!

The market is now open, we have so much to offer, we have so much that we are proud of…won’t you come with me, just to check it all out?

Have a great weekend…this weather is telling me that we are finally going to see the summer months!!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam

An Annual Weekend Event!


Hello!! Just a bit of an announcement from our friends at Sunshine Gardens!!

Once again, this coming weekend, Rufus and Katie will be hosting their annual Open House!!

Refreshments, door prizes, specials on vegetable plants, hanging baskets, annuals and perennials!!

They are located at 11772 N.St. 4 Rt.4, just north of Mechanicsburg.

The Sunshine Farms Open House hours are Friday and Saturday (May 9-10) from 9am-7pm, both days!!

It’s a big event, each year…you won’t want to miss it!!

Ladies and Gentlemen...


We would like to take this opportunity to thank you, once again, for putting your trust in our market!

The ordering portion of the week is now over, and we appreciate your efforts in making us such a stand out success!!

We realize you have a choice in where you shop but we really, really, really are glad that you keep it local!!

If you ordered, we will see you at order pick up! If you didn’t order, we will see you, next time!!

Thanks for showing us so much local love!

Peace and Love,
Cosmic Pam