The annual Chamber of Commerce event from 4-7pm at the Timberlake Lodge, features local businesses and is free and open to the public. Visit our table to play a fun game, find out more about our Season of Giving campaign, and enter to win prize!

For the last few weeks, a lot of our energy and effort has been going into our Season of Giving campaign to raise the funds we need to enter into the next phase of development. On Thursday, November 21st we celebrated Give to the Max Day by launching a limited time match and blowing our goal of raising $10,000 out of the water! So much so that two more donors stepped up to provide a $4,000 mini-match for the following day. We raised over $28,000 from just these two days alone!

Our next giving holiday is this Tuesday - the international GivingTuesday on December 3rd. This time, our goal is to gain 50 new donors! As an opposite to the overly consumerist Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, GivingTuesday is the perfect time to give the gift of supporting a movement dedicated to building a local food network that feeds our families, supports our farmers, and strengthens our community!

If you've already contributed - thank you! Please help spread the word about our campaign to just 5 other people, owners or future owners! Through word of mouth, a quick email, text, or a phone call, you can make a real impact by sharing why you support Free Range Food Co-op!

By the numbers - out of our 96 total donors so far, 84 are FRFC owners. That means about 7% of our owners have already donated and we only need 150 more of our 1,189 owners to reach the average co-op fundraiser owner participation rate of 20%! If you cannot make a financial contribution, consider volunteering your time & talents!

We can't begin to thank our local community enough for their support for this campaign, and for the future of the co-op. Maybe you saw the article written in the Herald Review a few weeks ago? If not, click the button below to read it!

Published in the Herald Review today, (December 1st) from our Board Chair, Brandon Otway, a message of heartfelt gratitude for all of those who have contributed to the Season of Giving Campaign so far but especially on Give to the Max Day last week.

Again, Cooperative Principle 6 was alive and well this month as Paul Bunyan Communications and Pinnacle Marketing Group helped us produce this beautiful commercial, now airing on their cable stations! Thank you!! Watch it below and find it on our social media pages to share with friends & family.

Local Food Partners

This section of our newsletter is dedicated to linking community members with places to buy local food now. Part of FRFC's vision is that because of us, we have a growing, resilient, regional food system through direct support to local growers and producers.

While we are working to build our store, we are also building relationships with local farmers who will become future suppliers of fresh, local produce to stock at our co-op.

If you are a producer and would like to be added to this list, or if you're excited to help us grow our connections with local & regional producers as we plan the grocery store offerings, let's talk! Email us at freerangefoodcoop@gmail.com