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Sacred Commerce
As demand grows for local food,
demand also grows for local farming. In
addition to teaching how to grow food
in the backyard, Marsha also educates
people how to cook from scratch and
eat healthier. She hosts most of Sustain-
able Neighbors' educational events and
workshops at Guiding Wellness located
at 143 Skateway Drive. Guiding Well-
ness is a future pick-up site for Farmzie,
a program Marsha highly recommends.
She explains how it works, "A consumer
can go on Farmzie (www.Farmzie.com)
to see what farmers are selling in our
area. We don't have very many yet, but
we will. e farmer's inventory will all
be online. e consumer places the or
-
der and pays for it online. As soon as the
consumer buys the inventory, it is im-
mediately taken offline. e farmer will
drop inventory off at a pick-up point.
e consumer then can just go and pick
it up." She further explains that Farmzie
is going to put on a training session at
the FSU Cultivating Profits with Small
Scale Farming for farmers, chefs and
consumers to demonstrate how easy it
is to use. e Farmer will never have
to pay for any transactions. is will
help farmers become more successful.
Farmzie is another convenient way for
the consumer to be connected to the
food system. Farmzie is in the beginning
stages, but there is room to grow.
Sustainable Neighbors also collabo
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rates with the Slow Food USA Chapter
in Fayetteville. Slow Food is a non-
profit that supports efforts to bring food
education through farm to table dining
events that source from our local farm-
ers. You can find future dining events
as well as other Sustainable Neighbor
educational workshops at www.meetup.
com/sustainableneighbors or www.
sustainableneighborsnc.com.
Marsha stated, "My business at
Sustainable Neighbors and working as a
facilitator and educator around the local
food movement and Farm-A-Yard is
really a new way of doing business. We
are all collaborators. We are all in there
together, mutually promoting each other
around the local food movement. It is
sacred commerce."
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Japanese herb, Shiso
Butterfly landing on Lantana
