Are there membership fees?

To help us provide farm tours, community building programs, and to help us with our overhead costs, we ask that you pay an annual fee of $25 per household for one calendar year. You are welcome to try us for two orders before officially becoming members.

Starting in the summer of 2009 we started donating $5 of every membership fee to the Saint Peter’s Food Pantry. The food pantry uses the donations to purchase from local farmers. This has proven to be a wonderful community relationship that is getting local, nutritious foods into the kitchens of those who couldn’t typically afford it.

Starting in September of 2010 we started putting $5 of every membership into the Conway Locally Grown Community Fund, a micro lending program that will fund sustainable and community oriented projects. This initiative is based on the “giving circles” concept, in which individuals pool their resources to help support initiatives that benefit the community. Say a newbie farmer is in need of some tools, a local upstart baker is in need of an oven, a local food pantry wants to put in some raised beds, or a community foods advocate wants to publish healthy recipes featuring local foods. The Conway Locally Community Fund could help in any of these scenarios with a $500 cash infusion.

How the Conway Locally Grown Community Fund works:

• Applications for the micro loans will be reviewed and voted on by you, our Conway Locally Grown Members, and recipients will be asked to document how the money was used. The results will be posted online.
• Anyone can apply for the cash infusion of up to $500. After six months, the recipients repay the cash infusion with time (volunteering at the market), talent (sharing a special skill), or treasure (paying back into the Fund).
• As soon as we raise our first $500 we will begin taking applications.

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Will I have to buy vegetables I don't want?

Unlike some co-ops, buying clubs, or CSAs where everyone gets the same box of stuff (and you don’t know what you’re getting until you get it), with Locally Grown you get to order what you want, in the quantities that you want, from the farms that you want. The weekly email lists the produce, milled products, fresh flowers, and artisan goods available that week, and you can browse the items on this website before you place your order.

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How do I order?

On Sundays, ordering opens at 6:00 P.M. Customers must place their order for the week no later than Tuesday at 10:00 P.M. Orders can be placed here on our website by going to the Market Page. It is just like shopping at Amazon.com. Just add things to your cart and check out.

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When do I pay?

We accept cash or checks when you pick up your order. Because we may have to adjust your total then (to account for unnanounced items you decide to purchase or items that were unexpectedly unavailable), we do not accept advance payment on the website.

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When and Where do I pick up my order?

Every Friday evening between 4:00 and 6:00 at Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church at 925 Mitchell Street.

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Why Support Locally Grown?

Enhance your local economy: By purchasing produce and other items from local growers you are providing stability to your local economy through the support of local businesses.

Save natural resources: Buying locally makes you an invaluable link in the process of saving resources such as fossil fuels and packaging materials. Also, we are right here in your community so the expense of transportation and delivery is kept to a minimum.

Provide learning opportunities: Locally Grown supporters provide member growers the means to help educate our community about the importance of sustainable agriculture.

Supporting a way of life: The number of small farms in the United States has decreased dramatically in the last decade. Please help us preserve an honest and worthy means of making a living.

We believe that small, diverse, family-owned farms contribute to society’s overall health.

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How can I sell through this market?

• CLG will admit new farms and artisans once a year.
• Applications must be submitted by October 1st to be eligible for admittance for that year.
• The number of applicants admitted in a given year is based on the increase in gross sales of the market for that given year. We will admit a new farmer or artisan for every $10,000 increase in CLG’s gross sales from the the previous year.
• All applicants will be required to fill out the appropriate applications, must meet all of the requirements for the CLG Farmer Commitments and Procedures, and must be inspected by a designated member of CLG.
• Applications will be posted online and CLG members will have the month of November to review farmer applications and vote for the farms that will be admitted.
• The first week of December, the new farmers will be admitted to the market.

If your are interested in selling through Conway Locally Grown:

1. Create an account with Conway Locally Grown
2. Go to the Growers Page and read the links to the CLG Core Values And Beliefs and CLG Farmer Commitments And Procedures to make sure your farm or artisanal business meets our criteria.
3. Log in to your account, and go back to the Growers Page and click on the link “Tell us about Yourself”
4. Once again, go back to the Growers Page and fill out the appropriate questionnaires.
5. We will then schedule a time to visit your farm.

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