Small Farms Making a Difference in the Upstate

Welcome to the Upstate’s First Local on line Market

MARKET MANAGERS: DONNA AND LENARD PUTNEY

WE INVITE YOU TO MAKE US YOUR ON-LINE GROCERY STORE!

We are thankfulfor the opportunity to present to you the freshest, most delicious local food for your healthy eating!

To receive a weekly Availability update and newsletter, register in "Your Account. This will also enable you to order any of our over 200 local products.

You may pick up at any one of our locations, whichever is more convenient to you. You will be given a choice at check-out. We encourage you to pool with your friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Please have cooler if needed, and bags. Payment is by cash, credit card, or check, due before pick-up. Our products are harvested when you order, and you are responsible to pay for the order. As the growers are paid when they drop off your products, if you do not pick up, your account will reflect the charge. Feel free to browse all of the Market pages. After you register, an icon will appear on the market page,(when ordering is open) enabling you to order.
Ordering opens from Friday 6pm untill Monday 8am, then closes for harvest and delivery for Tuesday.
(See policies below for more detail.) Happy Shopping!
Donna Putney putneyfarm@aol.com

We support a sustainable way of life!

We at Upstate SC Locally Grown are a group of growers who have pooled our resources to bring you the freshest, most delicious locally produced foods and some of the most unique and tastefully done crafts around!

We have a variety of local products including Local(Honea Path) pastured eggs, locally roasted and ground Fair trade coffe, freshly baked breads, fresh herbs, live plants, soaps, crafts, doggie treats, goat cheese products, *meats of all kinds, (all State inspected and labeled; pastured, all natural) fudge, *Gift certificates, and fresh PRODUCE raised here in the Upstate!

*We always welcome your feedback and ideas! Keep them coming!

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Following are the current policies and practices of your Upstate Locally Grown Market. There is more fine-tuning to do, and

we will notify you for updates or revisions to it. You may find the latest policies in the catagory “About” on our site.
Our goal: to provide the freshest, purest, most sustainably grown food available in the upstate.
Our creed: win/win: helping each other is a winning proposition for all.
Our best policy: Going that extra mile for you.
Members:
you may access http://www.upstatesc.locallygrown.net 24/7 to browse the market, read about our growers, view our photo

albums. Ordering will open from Friday evening @ 6pm untill monday 8 am. At the time that we open the ordering, if you have

creaqted an account you will receive an email with a newsletter plus a complete list of every product available on our web

site that week. We usually call that the availability list/newsletter.
1)Ordering: anyone who has registered an account may order from any of our producers who have products listed as available.

2)Payment:if picking up at Whole Foods Market, payment would be in advance. Whole Foods may not accept payment. You may use

our paypal account (when it is ready) to put 100.00 or more into your account. Then you may draw it down as you go. A

second alternative at this time is to mail a check, either for the exact amount, or for 100.00 or more, to draw down.
Pick-up: For most products,unless notified differently, you may pick up at West End Coffee Company, 18 S. Markley Street, on
Tuesdays from 5-6. You still may pay at pick-up. You may pick up at Whole Foods Market (See the Information Desk) from 3-7pm

on Tuesdays. Use your own boxes, bags, and coolers. These orders must be pre-paid. Our address for mailing checks is

Upstate locally Grown Market c/o Donna Putney PO Box 8 Honea Path, SC, 29654-0008. You may still choose to pick up in Honea

Path with special arrangements. Choose Putney Farm pick-up and phone us @ 864-901-2692.
3) Creating an account:Two reasons to create an account:1)In order to recieve the weekly update and newsletter, you will need

to enter your email info and create a password. Then you will automatically receive the mailing. 2)You may brouse all you

wish, however, you must create an account in order to purchase.
Growers:
Our web site address is http://upstatesc.locallygrown.net. We are part of the Locally Grown network, consisting of many

markets across the country. We promote local, sustainably grown products. The grower or producer must be known to us, be

interviewed, have an on site visit, and must abide by our policies. We reserve the right to withdraw our support of any

grower who knowingly misrepresents any of his products in any way.
Technically, we are not selling from our farms, so You must comply with state and Federal regulations, as if at a Farmer’s

Market. We will gladly forward copies of the requirements, or you may contact DEHEC. All eggs, meat, and dairy needs to be

transported and stored at the required temperatures at all times.
You do not have to be certified organic to sell at this market. We allow naturally grown, sustainably grown, cage-free,

free-range, pastured, antibiotic-free, pesticide free, self-produced local foods. There may be exceptions, and, if so, then,

these products must be clearly identified as conventional, or else containing conventional ingredients. These must be

cleared with the market before listing.
1)Ordering will be open from Friday evening @ 6 pm until 8am Monday Morning. We will need to have your market forcast ready

before the Friday 5pm deadline. You are invited to phone me (Donna) @864-901-2692 to let me know what you have for the

current week. This will enable me to point out to the members what is new, or what we would like for them to notice, as I

write the newsletter.
2)Beginning the sixth of January, 2009, (Tuesday), We plan to have our produce at Whole Foods Market by 2:15 for sorting and

packaging of orders. (This is in preparation for the new Tuesday afternoon Farmer’s Market to begin @ Whole Foods this

spring)
3)You must have your products either to me by 11 AM Tuesday or to Whole Foods Market by 2:15 pm, labeled. We will meet just

outside the door at the eating area to sort and pack. We do not have to stay to distribute the products.
3a)you have the option of having one of the market helpers (including me) to pick up your products from you. There would be

a 5% additional service charge reflected in your comission.
4)There is a labeling system built into our program. If you need help, instructions, or if you wish for me to print your

labels, please let me know when you call in your products. There will be a one percent service charge for the market to

print your labels.
5)your initial one-time $40.00 fee covers your interview, being entered into our system and an on farm visit by your peers.

You may feel free to use http://www.upstatesc.locallygrown.net as your personal website. We will coach you in working the

Upstate Locally Grown Market Web Site and make sure that you have your products listed. (Please review the “about” section,

and all coaching on the pages you visit on the site. they are very helpful.) Please get any new product approved before

adding to the market.
PICK_UP
6)You are responsible for weekly changing the quantities on your products, acurate information about the products, and for

contacting the member when there is a question or if you wish to substitute. This is your web site, and your market booth.

Your contact with our members will build customer loyalty.
Our members are conscientious about what they eat, how it was grown, how the flock is treated, and what is in the food they

eat, as well as how our practices affect the earth and its environment. Never before has this awareness been so at the

forefront. We are in the right place at the right time. Never has “sustainable” been so correct. Your presence at the

pick-up builds customer trust. The more often you are there, the better relationships we build, which increases demand for

your products. “Put a Face on your food”.
The market welcomes your support and your presence at pick-up.
If you come to the pick-up site with extra products, you may sell these only after we have completed our pre-ordered

business. Please keep these extra products clearly separate from the pre-ordered products, possibly on a separate table. You

are responsible for collecting for your extra products. Bring change.
As Market Manager, I have been a volunteer….I do not charge for my time. Your comission charge goes toward running the

market; ie: gas, insurance, (both auto and market umbrella insurance) printing expenses, telephone expenses, calculators,

book keeper, Market Helper veggie vouchers, advertising, promotions and tastings, Farmer’s Market booths and equipment. I

co-ordinate the market as a whole, and the advisory board and I make final decisions about operating policies. Your job is

to ready your products for the consumer and to make sure they get to pick-up in time.
The more that you do for the market, the less time that I have to spend on it. The less you do for yourself and I do for

you, the more time that it takes me, or a market helper.

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The best to all of you!

Happy Shopping!

Donna Putney,

Market Manager

putneyfarm@aol.com

864-901-2692
POBox 8
1624 Taylor Road
Honea path, Sc, 29645-0008

We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible.
Would you like to pre-pay money into your account and draw down the balance from week to week? Now you can pay by check or credit card through PayPal (even if you don’t have a PayPal account). To add money to your account, click the button below and enter the amount you’d like to pre-pay. When the payment goes through, I’ll add the money to your account and your orders will automatically draw down on your balance. If items become unavailable, their price will get automatically added back to your account. You’ll never be charged for items you don’t receive. There’s two important notes: * To make it work efficiently, please make your payment be, at minimum, $100 * To cover the PayPal fees, I will deduct 3% or their exact fee, whichever is less, from your payment before I add the total to your account. You’ll be able to skip the payment lines on Tuesday, pick up at your convenience from Whole Foods Market, take advantage of the bonus points on your credit cards, or simply not have to worry about toting around cash or checks. To add money, just click on the following button. You’ll be taken to PayPal’s secure site where you can pay, and it’ll return you here when you’re done. Thanks!

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.