It’s that time of year again!!! In honour of CSA Week we’ve got an amazing Early 🦉 Bird Special – Memberships are 15% off until February 28th!! That means you’ll pay $425 for a $500 Membership or $212.50 for a $250 Membership!! Did you know that we grow year-round? That’s right, Fresh & Local all year long! You can buy a Membership by visiting locallygerminated.ca . See more info about Memberships & why buying local is so important at the end of this post.
Subscriptions
Do you struggle to eat a healthy, balanced diet every week? Do you want help to stay committed to healthy eating? Some of our current Members wanted an easier way to get Fresh & Local every week so … we created Subscriptions! Easy peasy, you’ll get Fresh & Local veggies every week, automatically, all year long. You can buy a Subscription at locallygerminated.ca/subscription 🍅.
Here’s what you need to know about how the Subscriptions work:
- You choose from a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly Fresh & Local bag
- You can change the frequency after you’ve started
- You choose pay-as-you-go or prepaid
- You choose home delivery** or pick-up on the farm
- All prepaid subscriptions (and memberships) come with free home delivery**
- The pay-as-you-go subscription is $5 per delivery**
- With a prepaid subscription you save 10%
- With a pay-as-you-go subscription you save 5%
- You have your own portal where you can control your subscription:
- You can pause at any time
- You can change the payment method
- You can cancel (after 2 orders)
- You can add extra products or make substitutions with each Fresh & Local bag
- Members + Prepaid Subscribers will start receiving our Fresh & Local weekly veggie bag in April.
- Pay-as-you-go subscribers will start receiving our Fresh & Local weekly veggie bag in May.
- All subscriptions will be paused until the Fresh & Local weekly veggie bag begins.
There are 5 different Fresh & Local bag options that you can subscribe to:
- The Farmer’s Choice, which has 3 different sizes to suit your needs
- The Grab ‘n’ Go Frittata Kit
- The Grab ‘n’ Go Salad Kit
- The Grab ‘n’ Go Stir Fry Kit
- The Grab ‘n’ Go Green Smoothie Mix
Find all the details @ https://locallygerminated.ca/collections/membership
** 🚚 We only offer delivery to Tilbury & to communities within a 20 km radius around Tilbury
Are you outside of our current delivery zone (20 km radius around Tilbury)? We’re working with folx who want to host a neighbourhood depot in these outer areas. Each depot would need to have a minimum of 20 members or subscribers for us to deliver. If you’re interested contact us & let’s see if we can make it happen in your neighbourhood!
Merchandise for our Farm Fundraiser
Do you live too far away or can’t buy a membership or subscription right now? You can still support us through our new Merch store! We’ve designed a number of T-shirts, tank tops, hoodies, children’s tees, mugs & tote bags as a way to fundraise for specific things we need at the farm (like better ways to grow more veggies year-round!). Check it out @ Bonfire & enjoy the examples below.
6 reasons to Buy Local
Please tell us what your reasons to buy local are by commenting below 👇! We’d really appreciate it if you shared this with your friends & family to help us get the good word out 💖.
1) 🤝🏼 TRUST. Buying a Membership to our Fresh & Local weekly food bag is like having your own personal Farmer! Neighbours tell me they don’t trust where their food comes from, they don’t trust the safety of their food because it all seems to come from nameless corporations that are far away. One member shared: “I don’t know how my food is grown, and that makes me nervous. I feel disconnected from the whole food system. I want to look my farmer in the eye, so I can trust my food is safely grown. I want to be able to feel like I have some control over what I’m eating. Knowing my farmer gives me security and peace of mind that what I’m feeding my family is safe. I also want my farmer to show me the story of farming, so I feel like an educated consumer.” Whether it’s 🥶, 🌧️, 🌬️, ❄️, or especially 🥵, we’re always working hard to make sure you have the freshest veggies for the most delicious meals all year long. Let us be your friendly neighbourhood gardener 🕸️🦸👨🌾. We are a small family farm straddling Tilbury & Lakeshore.
2) FLAVOUR. 🥕 We all know we should be eating more fruits + vegetables, right? But they’ve become so flavourless over the years. Do you know why? To survive the trek from California to Ontario, fruits + veggies are bred for travel, not flavour, and they’re picked unripe. By the time you make a purchase your food is already several weeks old. It’s no surprise that the next problem you have is that your veggies go bad before you can even eat them 😠. And it’s no wonder we struggle to get the daily recommended amount! On our family farm your taste buds matter 😋. We harvest only at peak ripeness & veggies travel from our field to your home in less than 24 hrs 🥦. We’re a community of eaters who love to share cooking tips + tricks, because we know that while everyone *wants* to eat healthier, sometimes we need a little help along the way. As one member said, “I couldn’t believe the flavour difference with my local veggies! I really started enjoying making homemade meals again and my family can’t believe how delicious everything tastes! We have saved a good amount of money by not eating out all the time!” 🥗
3) 🧒🍉 VEGGIES CHILDREN WILL EAT! All parents want their children to be safe + healthy, and we’d looooove to get our children to eat fresh fruits + veggies from an early age 🚼. But there seems to never enough time or 💲💲 to figure out who to trust, or to make delicious meals that children will *actually* eat, or to go to the farmers market, and on and on. The struggle is real. And we’ve been there. That’s why we started feeding hundreds in our community with our Fresh & Local weekly box. It’s all fresh, all the time, all grown on our family farm, but best of all it’s veggies that kids love to eat (before it even gets to the fridge!). A bonus is that when you eat what’s in season it costs less! We invite you to join us as we Eat The Rainbow 🌈 together .
4) 🥢🍛🍜🍱 INSPIRED + ADVENTUROUS COOKING. Do you love to cook? Does your mouth water seeing our Fresh & Local veggies? Can you taste the flavours through your screen? If you’re an adventurous eater & love trying new things, we’ve got you covered. We grow all the staples, of course, but we also grow for the people who loooove to cook & know how to use Bok Choi + Kohlrabi & love to plate a purple Carrot. If that’s you, then you know that the better the quality of your ingredients, the better your meal will taste. With our freshness guarantee – from our farm to your door in 24 hours or less – you’ll get the satisfaction of harvesting a backyard tomato 🍅 without all the work. Completely customizable, online ordering, on-farm pickup or home delivery – all to make your life easier + more enjoyable so you can keep being the 🌠 of your kitchen! Join & get your creative on in the kitchen.
5) 👩🏫 EDUCATION. This is way more fun than it sounds 😂. Long story short, we guide you on a journey from newbie to 🌟 of your kitchen with fast + easy tips, tricks & recipes. Does adventurous eating intimidate you? You’re not alone, most of us aren’t at-home gourmet chefs. Our vision for Fresh & Local is to inspire a love of cooking by making it accessible, convenient, and fun for everyone. You get more than food when you become a Member of our farm, you’ll also learn how to store, prepare + cook our veggies because we love guiding everyone to be stars in their own kitchens! We help you discover fast + easy ways to eat + preserve a huge variety of veggies so that you stop wasting food & level up your skills. Did you catch that? FAST + EASY, we’re not going to teach you complicated techniques.
As a sole parent to 3 children, I know how important it is for dinner to be fast, easy & something they’ll eat. Eating healthier doesn’t have to be hard & it doesn’t have to mean subtracting items you love to eat (no deprivation diets here!). By adding more 🥬 to your diet – not to replace something else, remember, no diets here – you’re feeding your body the vitamins + minerals it needs to thrive 💪 without feeling like you have to deprive yourself!
6) 🌍🌳🦋 CARE FOR OUR PLANET. You could say the Earth is my religion, there’s nothing more sacred + important. I could tell you all about how we grow but unless you’re a plant + soil 🤓 like me, using words like organic 🐝, regenerative, industrial agriculture, biodiversity 🐞, or conservation won’t mean much to you, and they don’t fully convey our commitment to causing the least harm (to all our human + non-human kin) while producing the most nutrient-dense food we can. Having no environmental guilt is a happy side effect of eating #LocalFood #LocalMeals. But, it’s more than that. Eating local reduces food miles, which reduces carbon emissions & the use of finite resources (oil won’t last forever!). Buying local is the shortest food chain you can get!
Reducing food waste is important to us. Did you know that 51% of the garbage we send to landfills is food scraps? Or that food never composts in landfills but rather creates methane gas (read up on anaerobic conditions if you’re interested in learning more)? Not to mention all the food that gets thrown out because it doesn’t look “perfect”, and I’m talking about the waste that comes from farmers directly, before it even hits the grocery store, so much delicious food that could provide healthy meals to people made vulnerable in our community. Buying a Membership or Subscription allows you to completely customize your weekly veggies, from the comfort of your home, have it delivered to your door 🏡 at no extra cost, and with NO environmental guilt! #TheBestWayToCombatClimateChangeIsBuyingLocalFood
Long Live Local Food! 🍅🧄🥬🥕🥗🌿🍳🥦🍯
Now is the MOST IMPORTANT TIME to purchase a Membership or a Subscription.
If you care about local food, now’s the time to show up 🎯.
Visit locallygerminated.ca to keep our local food system strong + resilient, and to keep your grocery bills low!
☮️✌🏽 + ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🫀
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