Small Farms Making a Difference in the Upstate

Growers, if you are a grower first, we may be an answer for your time constraints for marketing: We have over 200 regular subscribers to our availability newsletter, we have been written up in the Greenville News, as well as in blogs. We have an add in Sustainable Greenville, an on-line listing of “Green” businesses, Local Harvest, a nationwide lister of sustainable growers, and many others. When people come to our site looking for sustainable foods, you may want to be listed here. We are personally known to hundreds more people due to our participation in the Greenville Downtown Saturday Market, by selling at Whole Foods Market, as well as by supplying chefs around the area. This May, we are pleased to say that many of our growers will be participating in the Whole Foods local Farmer’s Market!
This market is open to all local to Greenville,SC and surrounding area producers of either produce, animals, plants, or crafts of your own talents. A win/win attitude is an essential trait for all of us. We feel that we can help each other in raising the awareness of the public to the benefits of purchasing from small family farms. Each of our grower friends who join us pledge to bring to our members and to each other the freshest, most healthy, most delicious foods available! We know that you are first, a grower. Upstate Locally Grown is here to make it easier to market your products while giving most of your time to what you love best: producing!
If this describes what you do, then, Our hens are free to eat grass and insects, without cages, on organic soil, our meat animals range on pastures, our goat milk products are made on the farm, our baked goods are made from fresh, whole grains, without white sugar nor preservatives; milled on site as we bake them, our veggies and meat are raised without chemicals or antibiotics, and our growers are very careful to rebuild the tilth of the land: therefore, are sustainable. Our manufactured or processed products have healthy ingredients and are made and packaged in accordance to state and DEHEC standards. Growers,you must be using sustainable methods. We pledge to keep our products free from chemicals, antibiotics, or chemical horomones. Plant-based products are acceptable, as are organic pesticides and herbicides.
In any case where conventional ingredients must be used, due to unavailability of organic, we pledge to let our shoppers know in writing, up front, in the information area of the product. If you agree to the above policies, Then we would like for you to join us. To get started, enter your contact info in “my account”, indicate that you would like to be a grower and contact us for approval and activation. Thanks, and welcome aboard! The one-time set-up fee is $40.00 for growers. Thanks!
Donna Putney
Market Manager
putneyfarm@aol.com
864-901-2692

Our Growers
Brochure_steers Bar T Ranch - Nature's Beef
Honea Path, SC		 N/A 36
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Cscgrown_bug_small_rgb Billy's Boer Meat Goat Farm
Westminster		 N/A 7
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Bio Way Farm
Ware Shoals SC		 NO
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Black_cow_logo Black Cow Coffeehouse & Bakery
Honea Path, SC		 N/A 13
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Jersey_cow Butter Patch Jerseys
Saluda, SC		 N/A View Details
Calm Water Kayak Tours & Farm
Ware Shoals		 NO
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Firstfruits Farm
Greenville, SC		 CERT.
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Great_harvest_color_logo_from_website Great Harvest Bread Company
1467-B Woodruff Road, Greenville, SC		 N/A View Details
Coco-chzcake HANDMADE
Greenville		 N/A 1
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Holstein Happy Cow Creamery
Pelzer, SC		 NO
CHEM. 		9
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Highland Hill
Taylors, SC		 NO
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Vegetables_2 Hurricane Creek Farm
Pelzer, SC		 NO
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2nd_001 Landscape Gardening and Natural Design
Honea Path, SC		 NO
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Mc Mullan Farms
Hartwell		 View Details
Aracauna_roosters_003 Putney Farm
Honea Path, SC		 NO
CHEM. 		7
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Sc_dairy_logo_75 Split Creek Farm
Anderson, SC		 1
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Spurgeon Farms
Taylors, Sc		 CERT.
ORGANIC 		4
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Steve's Pork
Grey Court, SC		 NO
CHEM. 		3
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100_0245 Tail Waggerz Canine Confections & Barkery
Greenville, SC		 N/A 7
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Tamworth_pig_1 Welch and Son Farm
Honea Path, SC 		14
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Wec-logo_lg_wt West End Coffee Co.
18 S. Markley St., Greenville, SC		 2
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You have made the best choice! What could be fresher than “just picked” veggies, “freshly milled” baked goods, “freshly roasted” and "Freshly ground coffees, or more healthy than grass fed, free-ranged, cage-free meat, or better for you than unprocessed milks? We at Upstate Locally Grown Market are a group of people who are joined in an efort to make available to you the very freshest, highest quality, most healthy food aavailable! We assure you that our products are as close to nature as is possible today, and thousands of miles fresher!

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.