Mother Earth Produce - Help Serve More Families in Asheville, North Carolina

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Found on: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-mother-earth-produce-serve-more-families-food-community#/

This is a fundraiser for Mother Earth Produce, a small family owned Farm-2-Table company based in Asheville, North Carolina. We are asking for $25,000 so that Mother Earth can expand capacity to serve more families with local food.   Mother Earth Produce has been largely funded so far by our family and friends. The business is now breakeven in profit by serving about 1000 families; and we want to grow our business now to serve at least 3000 families in the area to serve more of our community.

Mother Earth owners Graham and Andrea DuVall, are passionate about local food:

• We believe that eating local, organic, non-GMO food grown with the water, soil and air where we live is most optimal for our body, mind, and spirit.
• Our large-scale industrial food supply system is toxic, nutrition free and making us all sick
• Even the ‘Organic’ label has been co-opted and diluted and taken over by the large-scale industrial food supply system; thus largely taking away from the original intent and purpose of small family farms producing organic non-toxic food
• Mother Earth stands for recreating and supporting local small family farms, and helping families in our region eat local, organic, non-GMO food
• Produce sold at large grocery stores, including organic food, typically travels on the average 1700 miles to the store shelf
• Mother Earth brings local food from local farms to our customers, so it is nutrient rich and much fresher
• Local small businesses supporting local jobs, people and the economy are best for the economic well being of a community
• The large industrial food supply system pays the farmer/producer of food on average 30-35% of the price paid by the customer at the store. Mother Earth pays the farmer/producer approximately 50-52% of the sale price; creating a viable economic support for small farmers
• We are what we eat

We need $25,000 at this time to grow and support Mother Earth’s mission and to serve more families and farms. Any support you can provide us will have an immense impact for our mission to grow and support the local healthy food movement.
So far, Mother Earth Produce has been largely funded by our family and friends. While it is now breakeven in profit by serving about 1000 families, we must grow the business to serve at least 3000 families in the area, to be truly financially healthy, and to create a long-term financially sustainable business.

We are asking our friends and loyal customers, to support us to:

• Expand Mother Earth‘s mission to bring more local healthy organic non-GMO food to the community
• Increase our ability to educate more people on the benefits of local food
• Increase our network of local small family farms to serve more people
• Expand our service to reach 2000 more families in the Asheville, Greenville, Spartanburg and Charlotte region

Please give $20, $50 or $5000; whatever you are able, to support our mission and ability to serve more. As a reflection of our sincere gratitude, we are excited to offer you many perks and benefits in return.

Full Disclosure: I wholeheartedly support family farms. The best fruit and vegetables come from these family-owned farms.