Call to Farmers and Growers

If you are a grower and would like to join this unique opportunity to sell your farm products every week, with a huge built-in customer base, be sure to contact us.

You'll be able to drive your truck right into the Market site each Saturday, for easy loading and unloading. The following information will give you an idea how this will work:                                          

• Guidelines for Farmers and Growers
• Farmers and Growers' FAQs

"Americans put almost as much fossil fuel into our refrigerators as our cars.  Tractors, combines, harvesters, irrigation, sprayers, tillers, balers, and other equipment all use petroleum.  Even bigger gas guzzlers on the farm are not the machines...synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides use oil and natural gas as their starting materials, and in their
manufacturing.

But getting the crop from seed to harvest takes only one-fifth of the total oil used for our food.  The lion's share is consumed during the trip from the farm to your plate.  Each food item in a typical U.S. meal has traveled an average of 1,500 miles.  In addition to direct transport, other fuel-thirsty steps include processing (drying, milling, cutting, sorting, baking), packaging, warehousing, and refrigeration.  Energy calories consumed by production, packaging, and shipping far outweigh the energy calories we receive from the food.

If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week."