NC Food Net

Essentially Organic 2 Buying Club

EssOrg2 — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:08:02 +0000

OUR MISSION
Because of illness-related needs, it was necessary to purchase organic, properly prepared foods for our families. This required that we stop using the grocery stores for 90% of our food, and we had to search out local farms that had the clean, raw foods we needed. It took years and many, many miles to find the few farms we started with, and every week we traveled the road, going from farm to farm for our food.
Then friends began wanting to get the same good foods, and we would take their orders and pick up for them since we were going anyway. Then folks began either helping with the gas or taking turns making the farm runs.

PICKUP & DELIVERY
Over the last 7 years, the idea for Essentially Organic2 took several forms, the last becoming the online organic store you see on our website. The purpose was to help as many folks as possible obtain the same food we’ve spent years locating by giving them a single place to buy it and making just one trip to pick it all up, saving time, money, and gas.
When you join the buying club, you are guaranteed the very best of certified organic grass fed and pasture raised meats, dairy, produce, and other transitional organic products for healthy living. Everyone orders online and picks up their orders from either Host Homes, or local farmers markets.

MAE Farm Meat

WendyPerry — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:21:05 +0000

Located in Franklin County, MAE Farm Meat has been producing the finest quality beef and pork for its happy customers in the Triangle since 2004. Mike and Suzanne Jones raise….

* free range and pastured livestock

using…

* exemplary animal welfare standards they believe exceed regulating agencies
* vegetarian livestock feeding and recipes created by Mike that gives his meats added levels of flavor

processed…

* without fillers, dyes or nitrates

and…

* flash frozen in vacuum packaging to maintain optimum freshness and quality!

MAE Farm Meat can be purchased at the State Farmers’ Market in Raleigh where you will find our store open 7 days a week from 9:00 - 5:30 in the Market Shoppes and on Saturday morns at the Rocky Mount Farmers’ Market. Feel free to call us for other purchases too!

Find us on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/MAEFarm where we offer Facebook/Newsletter only specials.

And sign up for our newsletter on our web page where you will find a listing of our many products and current pricing.

Small Farm Marketing ~ Small Farm Weddings ~ Farm Frolics

WendyPerry — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:56:01 +0000

Home Economist, Personal Chef and Culinary Junkie Wendy Perry brings her experiences and passions for marketing, special events planning, agriculture and sustainable farming together in one pasture…

Small Farm Marketing was planted to promote small farmers and farmers’ markets by offering a fresh look with new eyes and marketing plan development:

* to find glitches in current marketing that need fixing and prioritize to get the best “bang for the buck” out of the gate as other pieces of the plan are developed and implemented as budget allows…

* to assess current operations and look for possible ways to streamline procedures and increase productivity for improved profit margins…

* to fetch them higher visibility in their local marketplace(s) with new or tweaked branding and marketing materials… web pages, e-zines, social media presence and other ways as appropriate for each client…

* to develop value-added products for farm/market commodities…

* to create new ideas for “old” products with enhancements such as recipes/cards, demos and tastings… co-marketing with other area farmers… and suggestive selling techniques with fellow vendors at markets…

* to repackage products or redsign/enhance visual merchandising at market booths or retail selling outlets…

* and pull all these things (and more) together in a cohesive way for a well-rounded road map and gas to drive it!

With over 3 decades of a variety of experiences and interesting career journeys filled with delightful characters and a pocket full of resources, Wendy offers a menu of services to create just the right recipe for each of her unique clients! Just like her pots of soup, no two plans are the same. Mosey around her web pages to see how she might be able to stir things up for you or someone you know!
www.SmallFarmMarketing.com ~ a division of www.WendyPerry.com

Also newly planted in Wendy’s fields are…
www.SmallFarmWeddings.com and www.FarmFrolics.com

For 20+ years, Wendy was a wedding and event planner in the Triangle market. Deciding to head down other roads, she left those ventures behind. However, she recently has been having inquiries from folks looking for farms for their wedding venue… the *hottest* wedding trend these days! The entrepreneur in her is throwing out seed and now offering Small Farm Weddings, and needs to hear from folks out there with farms conducive to hosting them anywhere in North Carolina. Wendy will provide all the coordination, direction, accoutrement and decor from her years of vintage and rustic collectables… and will serve as liaison between the farmer and bride to handle all necessary details for wedding and related events booked at the farm.

For these weddings and associated food entertainment needs, she will be calling upon area chefs/restaurants/caterers that use local sustainable foods and would like to hear from those folks too, so if you are reading this and know farms or food providers that “fit” this picture and may be interested, please let them know to contact me.

And since there are quite a few companies and corporations that treat their employees to periodic fun staff and family days, she has also created Farm Frolics to accommodate those folks too. Take a look at www.FarmFrolics.com to see her fun creations… including “Cast Iron” Chef Team-Building Competitions using NC made foods and commodities and www.AdoptAFarm.us where she recommends those companies wishing to do community service type projects “adopt a local farm”…since “a farmer’s work is never done!” She will coordinate days with the farm and company for periodic “adoption days” where the employees will come out and help spiff up the farm and do needed chores with the day ending in a local foods picnic with the farmer and his family!

To be added to Small Farm Weddings/Farm Frolics Directory (Farms and Food Providers), please contact Wendy ASAP. At this time, there is no fee for directory listings.

*PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS*
Southern Foodways Alliance * Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
Slow Food® USA * American Farmland Trust
Goodness Grows In North Carolina * Got to Be N.C. Agriculture
Women Chefs & Restaurateurs * Chefs Collaborative
East Carolina University Alumni Association ~ College of Human Ecology

Bella Bean Organics

tes — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:03:14 +0000

Bella Bean Organics is an online farmer’s market and weekly delivery service. Each week we deliver fresh local and organic produce and specialty foods to your front door in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, or Durham.

The Produce Box

tes — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:53:30 +0000

We deliver locally grown, farm-fresh produce to your door every week during our North Carolina growing season. You can save time and money when we bring the farmers’ market to you! Join us and experience what over 500 families in the Triangle are enjoying

CSA Program at RTI International

tes — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:47:49 +0000

For 2010, RTI International is again proud to host the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program in the heart of the Research Triangle Park. If you work in the Park or live nearby, you can pick up local vegetables, fruits, eggs, free-range and organic meats, fresh-cut flowers, and North Carolina seafood every week at RTI.

Know Your Farms, LLC

tes — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:41:48 +0000

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a way of purchasing food that helps build a sustainable local food system in the process. By sharing some of the risk, the work, and the commitment with the farmers, you are helping us take great steps forward in rebuilding that system here in the Charlotte region. Know Your Farms handles the marketing, administration, and delivery of the CSA shares so that the farmers can focus on growing the food.

High Country CSA

tes — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:35:07 +0000

Maverick Farms has launched the High Country CSA, a community-supported agriculture (CSA) project linking area consumers to several local vegetable farms.

Farm to Fork Meat

tes — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:30:22 +0000

We are a third party CSA bringing you local ethical meats that are beyond organic a la carte each week. The farmers, ranchers and anglers are our partners so you are supporting them 100% when you buy from us. All our partners practice sustainable farming practices leaving no carbon footprint on our planet, offering ethically raised meats such as pastured pork, goat, lamb, beef, chicken, duck, turkey, pastured raised veal and the freshest local NC Seafood to be delivered directly to you! Our animals are stress free, living in their natural habitats which allows them to provide us with the nourishment that our bodies can process more effectively.

Carolina Grown, Inc.

tes — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:20:52 +0000

Get your organic and conventionally grown produce, including blueberries, broccoli, asparagus, lettuce, tomatoes, and more. Also available are pastured and hormone- and antibiotic-free beef, pork, chicken and lamb; milk, butter, eggs and cheese; fresh seafood and more, all from NC farms and fishermen, from Carolina Grown, a local food co-op, delivered to your door.