Our Mission
Monroe Locally Grown is a group of small farms and gardeners located around Monroe, Georgia. All member farms are dedicated to supplying their customers with the freshest and highest quality vegetables, herbs, mill products, dairy, eggs, meats, fruits, flowers, and transplants. Participating farms vary in size and specialty, but all carry the common thread of dedication to community, environment, health and education.
While not a true cooperative, Monroe Locally Grown uses cooperative efforts to achieve steady and dependable means of supplying the highest quality produce and other products. Locally Grown members work to find new and innovative methods to preserve greenspace, protect our natural resources, support our local economy, provide meaningful work, and return to a more self-sufficient community life. Each farmer realizes the importance of educating the community about the benefits of sustainable agriculture practices to our lives and our land. Locally Grown member farms often dedicate a portion of their personal time to building gardens for their local communities as well as providing fun and informative educational programs for children and adults, including those with special needs.
Why Support Locally Grown?
Enhance 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.
Please support our partners
Big thanks to Walton Local Food Alliance, Walton Wellness, and Walton County UGA Extension Office for their help and support in getting this market up and running. We look forward to working with them in the future.
Check out their websites to see all the good works they are doing for Walton County. You can also find a listing for each of these businesses on our Growers Page.
http://waltonlocalfood.org/
https://waltonwellness.org/
https://extension.uga.edu/county-offices/walton.html
Ordering Options
Unlike other 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. You will be buying directly from each farmer, not MLG, just like at a traditional farmers market. 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.
Placing Orders
Each Saturday afternoon, an email is sent to everyone with an account here letting them know the website is open for the week. Customers place their orders for the week any time after that email goes out, but no later than Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. Orders are placed here on our website.
Growers receive their orders that same night and harvest on Wednesday and Thursday.
Picking Up Orders
From 4:00 until 6:00 p.m. on Thursdays, families can pick-up their produce at
The Old Memorial Library
201 Bold Springs Avenue
Monroe, GA 30655
Still have questions? Please email monroelocallygrowninfo@gmail.com
We thank you for your interest and support of our efforts to bring you the healthiest, the freshest and the most delicious locally-produced foods possible.
This market is using the Locally Grown online farmers market system. More information about how your market or farm can also use this system can be found at locallygrown.net/faq. Legal information about using this website can be found at locallygrown.net/legal.