The Weblog
We send out cool articles and farmer highlights using a different email program. You can see the archives of those emails here and through our facebook page! We use this “weblog” every Friday evening to let you know the market page is accepting orders (look for the little add to cart buttons next to products). Northeast Georgia Locally Grown was officially OPENED on Monday, April 26th, 2010 and we are so thankful that you are helping support fresh local foods each week.
Locally Grown - Availability for December 17th, 2014
Hey Local Food Lovers,
This is the last Locally Grown week we’ll have before Christmas (we’re closed for two weeks after due to the holidays). We have a ton of Christmas Specialty items that’ll make the holidays special: buche de noel cake, dried herb bundles, flan, Christmas cactus mugs, jerusalem artichoke soup, and if you’re hoping to introduce somebody to the Locally Grown market in 2015, buy a GIFT CERTIFICATE for a friend in any dollar increment you’d like. We have some nice new full color certificates!
We want to THANK all of you for a just incredible 2014 year! Really, this has been an incredible year! If all goes well this week, we’re likely to finish the year with sales above $75,000. Just for some perspective that’s about 60% growth from last year. What’s much more important than the dollars and cents, is that many more of you out there are eating local foods and eating local more often. Helping to make that happen is farmers who are working to grow more food, and grow it more months of the year. I know of several greenhouses under construction right now.
The expansion to Gainesville this year has really been something special. But it’s only the beginning. It’s really kind of been like a trial run up to now. In the new year we’ll be setting up a farmer drop off down there, so that even more vendors can join the market. We’ll also be launching a marketing campaign that should help all of Hall County, and hopefully even beyond that the market is there! We’re looking forward to some very fun events as well in 2015, and opportunities for you all to meet some of the farmers behind Locally Grown.
It feels early to be saying this, but we wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Everyone who orders meat this week should get it this week. Please don’t forget your orders (and remember it’s always a good idea to have a backup person you can call in a pinch to come get your order for you).
EAT WELL, and EAT WELL OFTEN, and THANKS!
Justin, Chuck, Teri, Andrew and all the growers, and all the volunteers here at Locally Grown!