Small Upstate Farms Making a Difference



Welcome to Upstate Locally Grown Market


How it works:

• Order online directly from the grower! Our Market cuts out the middle man to enable farmers to literally pick and pack your order just hours before you pick it up!
• Trial Order: guest membership to try us out. Go to Your Account to sign up today.

• Huge selection to choose from: over 300 seasonal, local products and services to choose from.
• Convenient Pick ups: We offer several convenient pick up locations around the Upstate, close to work or home.
• Free newsletter and availability list: Weekly newsletter with notification of market’s ordering window as well as the list of everything available on Upstate Locally Grown that week, recipes, gardening tips, community events and much more.

Why choose Upstate Locally Grown?

• Local: Feel good knowing that you help support the family farmers in your area
• Reduce Carbon Footprint: Buying local means less fossile fuels used to get your products to you.
• Fresh: Once you taste our products, you’ll experience the true meaning of from-the-farm flavor. Try your favorites or something new and unusual.
• Flexibility: Browse products 24 hrs. a day, ordering window open all weekend, choose pick up site when you order, no weekly ordering requirement

Who grows your food and how?

See Our Growers page for detailed descriptions
• Upstate residents grow your food. We personally know each grower and his/her growing methods.
• Produce is grown naturally without harmful pesticides.
• State inspected naturally pasture raised meats of all kinds
• Truly free-range eggs
• Natural and fresh milled baked goods
• Artisan crafts
• Health-promoting conventional products, such as Gluten-free and Low fat items may be offered if identified as conventional. No preservatives are allowed.

Why Support Locally Grown?

• Supporting a way of life: The number of small farms in the United States has decreased dramatically in the last decade. Help preserve an honest and worthy means of making a living. (No Farms, No Food)
• Enhance local economy: By purchasing produce and other items from local growers you are providing stability to your local economy through the support of local businesses.
• Freshness: Locally Grown foods are the freshest you can find anywhere! Produce is picked to order not before. Eggs are packed just before delivery. You will be amazed at the difference in taste that “fresh” makes.
• Save natural resources: Buying locally makes you a valuable link in the process of saving resources such as fossil fuels and packaging materials. We are right here in your community, so the expense of transportation and delivery is kept to a minimum.
• Provide learning opportunities: Locally Grown supporters provide member growers the means to help educate our community about the importance of sustainable agriculture.

Our team of Growers We welcome passionate Upstate producers to join us!
On Our Growers page we’ll introduce you to the farmers who produce your foods. You can be confident knowing that all of our growers adhere to a strict food safety program and are committed to a sustainable way of life.

Questions? For more detailed information on memberships, payment, policies, and becoming a local vendor with us please check our Q’s and A’s page

PAYMENTS
You may use our safe Paypal “Donate” button on the Your Account page to add a credit of any amount. A suggested $100.00 or more balance can be placed so that you may draw down as you go.

Thank you for your interest!
Upstate SC Locally Grown Market
Market Manager: Donna Putney
putneyfarm@aol.com
PO Box 8 Honea Path SC 29654-0008

We at Upstate Locally Grown Market offer you the very freshest, highest quality, most healthy food available, as close to nature as is possible, and thousands of miles fresher!
Our market is designed to mirror the flavor, quality, service and grower commitment found at traditional farmers markets. We (you) are a part of the movement to bring real food back and to conserve the earth’s resources.
Upstate Locally Grown Market cuts out the middle man to enable farmers to literally pick and pack your order just hours before you pick it up!

Donna Putney – Market Manager putneyfarm@aol.com

This market is part of the Locally Grown Network. More information about how your market or farm can also use this system can be found at www.locallygrown.net.