An anonymous business has decided it will match donations up to $1,000 for Eat Local Grey Bruce.
The mostly locally sourced food and grocery delivery service enables users to select items online, and then pick them up at any of a number of locations in Grey Bruce.
The non-profit co-operative faced challenges last year, declaring insolvency and nearing bankruptcy. During the pandemic, it saw a spike in demand during the pandemic and then a drop afterwards. It launched a fundraising campaign and revamped its model and continues to operate.
Eat Local says in a release, you can donate any amount between now and February 28th and your donation will be doubled by the anonymous corporate sponsor.
The co-op offers locally grown fruits and vegetables, fresh bakery breads, preserves, sauces, soups, meats, dairy, fully prepped meals, snacks like chips, juices, coffee and many other items.
Members pay $40 a year and can select items online that producers have posted as currently available. Eat Local will then pack those orders at its warehouse in Meaford and them to pick up locations all over Grey Bruce.
Its producers include:
All Sorts Acres in Ayton
Backwoods Preserves in Holyrood
Beaver Valley Maple in Markdale
Better Together Farms in Chatsworth
Boon Bakery Inc. in Owen Sound
Bruce-Huron Produce Auction in Lucknow
Burdock Grove in Chatsworth
Casero Kitchen Table in Owen Sound
ChocoSol in Toronto
Cirrus Hill Farm in Meaford
Donald’s Honey in Owen Sound
Dykstra Orchards in Clarksburg
Eden in Season in Meaford
Fair Fields in Neustadt
Filsingers Organic Foods in Ayton
GingerBug in Owen Sound
Ironwood Coffee in Georgian Bluffs
Millbank Cheese & Butter
Miller’s Dairy in Creemore
Miners’ Maple Products in Kemble
Neal Brothers in Richmond Hill
New Life Farm, in Chatsworth
Ont Nat Food Co-op in Mississauga
Palatine Fruit & Roses in Niagara on the Lake
Persephone Market Garden in Allenford
Pfennings Organic Vegetables, New Hamburg
Pizapie Inc. 88 Harbord St
Poechman Family Farm in Walkerton
Redwillowhouse in South Bruce Peninsula
Rising Sun Bakery in Owen Sound
Saugeen Country Dairy in Markdale
Seilern Farm in Kincardine
Sideroad Farm in Markdale
Snowy Creek Bison Farm in Owen Sound
Son of RA Sourdough in Mount Forest
Sparrow-Hawk Farms in Owen Sound
Springhills Trout Farm in Williamsford
Stewart’s Fresh Produce in Elsinore
Stoeckli Organics in Kincardine
Tootsi Impex in Saint-Laurent, QB
Tranquil Solutions Canada in South Bruce Peninsula
Tree Song Farm in Flesherton
Twin Creeks Farm in Owen Sound
Two Birds One Stone in Kincardine
Weathered Meadow in Chatsworth
WoolDrift Farm in Markdale