FOR LOCAL BUYERS
Benefits of membership
Whether you are a restauranteur, chef, caterer, retailer, institutional food buyer, or any business looking for fresh, local food -- The Food & Farming program offers valuable opportunities to conenct with producers of the high-quality local products your customers are increasingly demanding.
Many great other benefits specific to local food buyers offered by our Food & Farming Program are in bold below.
NETWORK & CONNECT
- Annual Farm to Table Trade Meetings where you can connect with local farmers and producers
- Chef Farm Tours give you the opportunity to tour local farms, meet the farmers, & taste their wares in the field
- Food & Farming program newsletters
- Member-to-Member email announcement every other week, and an opportunity to place your own announcements
- Member-to-Member discounts between businesses
- Annual All Members Meeting
MARKETING & PROMOTION
- Discounted listing in the "Whatcom Food & Farm Finder" (the comprehensive guide to local food (30,000 copies distributed at nearly 200 locations yearly)
- Use of “Eat Local First” brand
- Free listing in our online and printed Member Directory
- Free coupon in the “Where the Locals Go” coupon book
- Free participation in the Think Local First campaign including materials and advertisements
- “Sustainable Connections Business Member” window decal
- Use of Sustainable Connections and Think Local logos
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES & MATERIALS
- Tips on protecting our watershed - take the “Watershed Pledge”
- Significant discounts on food and farming specific events and workshops
- Organizational newsletters
CLICK HERE to become a member of Sustainable Connections and support the Food & Farming Program.
*There is a fee for these publications and events, steeply discounted for members, also available to non-members at market rate. See membership form for details.
