With less than 5% of fresh produce in grocery stores from Alabama, Grow Alabama is your opportunity to have locally grown vegetables, fruits, eggs, dairy products, even fresh meats delivered to your home, office, or to a central pick-up point near you, from Alabama’s family farms. One taste, and you’ll find there are still farms where the fields are treated with care, not chemicals, and farmers put not pesticides, but their hopes and hearts into their land to grow food that is their pride. Open your first organic vegbox, and you’ll feel you’re tasting fresh produce for the first time. Instead of fruits and vegetables that have been picked unripe in California and transported for days, you’re tasting fresh corn, beans, peas, squash that were rippling in sun-drenched rows less than 48 hours ago, and picked by a farmer who had the time to look for the perfect moment of ripeness and flavor. Our participating farms will have a number that will be labeled on the food you receive. Please go to Meet the Farmers and you will see where that item came from and who grew it. Events this summer will bring them here in person.
Grow Alabama is the dream of one man, and the chance for everyone to preserve a vital way of life. Jerry Spencer saw Grow Alabama as a way to give our community a direct connection to the family farms of Alabama. Members not only buy more nutritious, flavorful food, they keep millions of dollars from leaving the State, and a rich tradition from vanishing forever. Starting as Mt Laurel Organic Gardens in 1998, Grow Alabama is now the country’s first statewide multi-farm community supported agriculture program, with the best Alabama has to offer.
*Our farmers are certified organic growers or working toward USDA certification.
**Very close to 100% of our vegetables, fruits, berries and nuts come from Alabama.
To honor our commitments to you, we will supplement when necessary from the closest organic sources, until we can grow it ourselves.
For further explanation go to The Foundation
