Red Hills Online Farmers Market open for business

Shopping for produce at midnight? Check. Helping small farmers sell their product more easily? Check. Socializing with lovely, hardworking farmers and taking home exactly what you wanted? CHECK.

After over a year of meeting, planning, and organizing, the Red Hills Small Farm Alliance is ready to debut the Red Hills Online Farmers Market.


This is how it works.
1. Register as a shopper. Fill out the registration information and pay your $10 annual shoppers fee.
2. Start shopping! The market is open from Sunday mornings at 9:00 am till Tuesday nights at 11:00 pm. Farmers from the Tallahasee area (within 100 miles) upload products-- from produce to mushrooms to pasture-raised meat. Fill up your shopping cart, and check out with your credit card online.

3. Your food is harvested to order. Farmers receive a pick ticket, and wonderful farm employees rush to harvest it.

4. Pick up your food! Every Thursday, farmers bring the harvest to Bread and Roses Food Coop, located at 915 Railroad Ave in Tallahassee. You have from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm to pick it up. Volunteers from the Red Hills SFA will be there to get your order together for you to take home.

The Red Hills Online Market offers more security for the producer and convenience for the shopper. I've worked my fair share of farmers markets, and there's nothing worse than finishing up a ten hour day with a cooler full of unsold food. With this system, farmers know exactly how much to harvest, and the produce is paid for, guaranteed. And, instead of sitting at market all day, farmers only have to drop off their harvest, leaving them more time to work in the field. Shoppers don't have to worry about showing up first at market to make sure their favorite product isn't sold out, and can take home exactly what they want without spending a lot of time shopping.

So get to shopping! Don't forget to register as a shopper, and check out what local farmers have to offer this Sunday.