*** THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSE. Congratulations to Nicki from Bentonville, lucky #13. You are the winner! ***
Welcome to Day 3 of weeklong giveaways focused on all-things-local because I am celebrating my four-year blog anniversary and showering you with awesome presents.
Day 3: Local Farmer’s Bounty: Farm Box Delivers, a local, organic and all natural food delivery service.
This giveaway is truly bountiful.
In fact, it may just blow your mind a bit as it has mine.
There is a new delivery service in town called Farm Box Delivers that supports local farmers, growers, and ranchers by providing them with a means of distribution beyond the local farmer’s markets. It is a two-fold business that services you and me via a home delivery service in Northwest Arkansas while at the same time helping our local community farmers establish a distribution service of their goods beyond the usual growing season. That means our small farmers have the ability to get more of their goods out and that we have more opportunities to try them!
I love that 98% – 99% of everything they sell is local.
This fact greatly excites me and is one of the reasons why I wanted to have this specific giveaway for you.
Another reason for my excitement is the flexibility of this service, which astounds me. Orders can be one-time only or a routine subscription service, and all can be customized to your taste buds and seasonal desires. Their facebook page is constantly keeping me abreast of what is new and available as they do a great job of highlighting local farmers, ranchers, and gardeners.
Zach Brown and his wife, Christie, started Farm Box Delivers about a year ago and is based in Lowell. Business is bounding with local enthusiasm and support and they are in the process of adding another distribution center in the River Valley.
Okay, there is much more we can chat about Farm Box Delivers but I will leave that for another time. There are two things I want to leave you with today:
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Consider shopping local. Browse their “shop” of locally made products for inspiration. Check out the photos on the bottom of this post to see the cornucopia of availability.
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Enter this giveaway and get your first Farm Box Delivers delivery free. Oh my, it’s a good one… I am jealous.
Prize:
A lucky someone will be receiving one Farm Box delivery that includes a Localvore Farm Box and a three day Paleo Prepared Meal. When I said the words “bounty” and “cornucopia” earlier, I meant it!
Contest ends next Wednesday, September 11th at midnight (CDT). I will pick a winner via randomizer.
Eligibility:
Answer the following question in the comment section.
Q: If you had one wish of an item or product that could be delivered to your home or office, what do you wish it would be?
Please make sure your comment has information that allows me to contain you such as your name, email, blog, facebook, or twitter name in case you are the winner (need help on how to leave a comment?).
Want extra changes to win?
+1 extra entry: Tweet this giveaway (tag “@nwafoodie” and leave an extra comment to let me know)
+1 extra entry: Facebook this giveaway (tag “nwafoodie” in the giveaway and leave an extra comment to let me know)
Here’s what to expect this week. Exciting, right?
Day 1 = LOCAL FOOD TREASURE giveaway
Day 2 = LOCAL CHEF EXPERIENCE giveaway
Day 3 = LOCAL FARMER’S BOUNTY giveaway
Day 4 = LOCAL UP & COMING FOOD COMPANY giveaway
Day 5 = LOCAL FOOD MAGAZINE giveaway
Day 6 = LOCAL INTRODUCTION TO BECOMING YOUR OWN BEST FOODIE giveaway
Day 7 = LOCAL BEVERAGE EXPERIENCE giveaway
Good luck!
Eat well, my friends. Eat well.
Lyndi
No purchase necessary to enter. Contest void where prohibited. Contest open to members who are 18 years or older. Contest open only to US residents only. Although this really giveaway only makes sense if you live close in the Farm Box delivery area, are planning to visit, or want to give this to someone who lives in this area. I was compensated by a sample box of vegetables, chicken, turkey, and flowers. All exceeded my expectations and the green bell pepper I ate actually had amazing flavor. A green pepper!
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| Farm Box Delivers – local produce delivered to your door |
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| Farm Box Delivers – local meats and poultry delivered to your door |
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| Farm Box Delivers – local meats that are top not quality, delivered to your door |
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| Farm Box Delivers – locally sourced foods in prepared meals, delivered to your door |
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| Farm Box Delivers – local flowers delivered to your door |
Fresh pineapple from Hawaii!
Now we are talking! My brother lives in Hawaii, maybe he can locate a source for us. 🙂
I love Trader Joe's and wish they had delivery to our area, or at least online ordering available.
One day, one day.
I really just wish I could have all in season fruits and veggies delivered to my front door every month!
That is exactly what I am looking forward to the most with this service, getting in-season fruits and veggies delivered each month.
I also tweeted (@kbenyr) and FB shared!
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So cool. I'm totally checking out their shop. I would want fruits delivered to my front door.
And we can have them delivered to our front doors every week!
Let me know what you think once you try your first order out!
Home grown tomatoes! Sweet corn! Much more
Ahhh yes, tomatoes. The perfect fruit.
One of my friends had corn delivered last week from FarmBoxDelivers and it inspired her to play around with different recipe combinations!
Berries are the thing that I would like to see really fresh not either unripe and hard or smashed and moulding as one usually finds them.
margueritecore [at] gmail [dot] com
Try them out and see for yourself… their customer service is pretty personable, too.
I posted a tweet too: https://twitter.com/AnnaZed/status/375852084190396416
margueritecore [at] gmail [dot] com
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Local food from small farmers. I also think it would be great if I could get fresh cilantro already cleaned and stripped off the stems (hate that job!).
I can vouch that it comes clean… however stems are attached! You need a stem-puller-off-bestie.
Shared on Facebook
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Retweeted as well.
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Healthy snacks to eat at work!
Score! This service was made for you!
Tweeted, too. twitter.com/jjzeck
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Wow, I would love to win this! I'm interested in their GF bread, as well as wonderful local veggies. The paleo meals looks yummy, too! 🙂
I saw a loaf of that GF bread and held it in my hand when I toured the warehouse. It feels like "normal" bread. (whoever reads this and is GF would understand that comment!)
You gotta try the bread and the paleo meal and tell me what you think!
Dog Food! I've got a 100 lb dog and a 20 lb dog and they EAT some food!! The bags are heavy, and I've love it to magically appear on my porch just as they are about to run out….instead, I'm running out….to get it!
Great idea! There is a little dog food/pet store in downtown Rogers where I buy all my natural dog and cat food… at a fraction of the cost. I'll pass this idea on to FarmBoxDelivers. Dogs are people, too!
I would love to try the Fruit for Office – Work. I work in Lowell as well..The bakery items look so good.. Thanks for this giveaway.
I know of a couple companies who have fruit delivered. In fact, we are working on that for our office!
Yes, you just gotta try it out Marge!
I love this so much! Excited about getting to know Zach & Christie, too. I checked out the five vegetarian meals and totally want those to show up at my doorstep. They sound scrumptious!!!
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
Do it.
And then, invite me over.
🙂
A cornucopia of cheeses
They deliver cheese!
I tweeted!
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Chocolates!
Brilliant! They should do this and I will pass it along!
I passed it on and it's coming!
Shared on facebook
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local meat would always be welcomed on our doorstep! 🙂 and cheese would be a close second.
Your wish is their command.
And perhaps for free, if you win this.
FRUIT…..need I say more 🙂 !! Sounds like an amazing idea 😉 Rachelle McGowen
They have it! Order away, my friend!
I would love chestnuts delivered to my door- I like them in both sweet and savory dishes!
Ooooo, what a great seasonal idea. I will pass that idea along, Silja!
Twitter
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I would love some organic milk delivered. My kids go through it so fast that I feel like I'm always going to the store for it.
Here you, here is your answer!
Organic, raw milk — delivered to my door every other week.
Mmmmmmm… are we returning back to the days of yore when the milkman would deliver? Yes, I do believe so!
Organic = yes, available via FarmBox
Raw = law states you can only get through the farmer… be sure to check out Summer Kitchen Family Farms in Fayetteville!
Shared on Facebook too!
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