10/02/2025
Support family farms, keep your dollars local 🐮
The best kind of farm? An economically sound one. One that can sustain. The only way for it to sustain today… is you, the consumer. Small farms need people to explore the difference in locally grown food and products. I don’t think that food has to be regenerative, holistic, or natural to be a better quality compared to that of the convoluted and inaccurately labeled products on super market shelves.
𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫?
🏡 Culture. You know the small towns in NWA that still have a local feed store or mill? Those places of business are there because of small farms. When those go away… so does part of our culture.
📈 Economy. An estimated 68% of every dollar spent local, stays local. I bet it’s higher when supporting farms.
💪🏽 Resilience. When volatile national food systems break, your local farmer is still producing.
🌳 Environment. Most farmers do their best to improve land, sequester carbon, and build soil. Your food will have fewer miles which means less pollution.
🌱 Nutrition. Food grown in living soil filled with microbes and living microscopic organisms, yields food that is considerably more nutritious. The same concept applies to meat and dairy animals and how their diets impact the quality of their output.
✨ Quality. The lotions, soaps, candles, bath bombs, baked goods, pasta, etc… in our store are noticeably higher quality. They are richer. I think consumers will find that their lives are made better by the intentionality someone else put into the product.
🍓 Seasonality & taste. Local grown, in season produce and vegetables are full of so much more flavor. There is nothing like it.
If the approx. 225,000 households in our region would commit to spending just $50 per month with local farms… I think it would change the local economy, improve the lives of consumers, and certainly change the lives are small and mid-size producers. Farmers make up the fabric of our region. If they can’t sustain, everyone loses. When you shop with small farms, you’ll experience a big difference.
