Connie’s Cornucopia – organic food straight to your door
I recently enjoyed a discussion with Connie Hoyt, the founder of Connie’s Cornucopia, a year-round, full-line Local Farmer’s Market with a difference.
Connie’s doesn’t have a physical location. They leverage the power of an online-only Market to bring Farmer/Vendors and Customers together in the North Metro Atlanta, Georgia area. Connie’s goal is to bring the spirit of the weekly farmers markets to homes and businesses in North metro Atlanta. Making that high quality, fresh food available every day, not just on Saturdays when many families are too busy with sports, and other events to get to local farmer’s markets.
Connie’s Cornucopia gives you direct Online access well beyond the traditional Farmer’s Market, providing not only Organic Foods and Artisan products, but bringing whole-food nutrition concepts directly to your door. This includes supplies to those who want to grow their own food without the requirement of traditional herbicides, and man-made fertilizers.
The company’s goal is beyond just selling fresh, healthy food, but to help people live without the need of man-made or mass-produced food in the global supply chain, and to actually know where the food is produced. You can get this high powered, locally sourced food delivered directly without having to travel, dealing with weather, parking, crowds, and traffic.
Connie says the online market can be a benefit and a convenience for people with families and young children as well as seniors, and others who can’t get to the fresh farmer’s markets in the community.
Their motto at Connie’s is “Where Food is Your Medicine, or Medicine will be Your Food.”
Connie’s Cornucopia is an Urban Farming and Marketing operation based in Forsyth County, Georgia, serving a 19-Zip Code area including: Cherokee, Dawson, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Hall, and Pickens Counties. Unlike some co-ops, buying clubs, or CSAs where everyone gets the same box of stuff (and you don’t know what you’re getting until you get it), with Connie’s Cornucopia you get to order what you want, in the quantities that you want, from the farms that you want.
Additionally, they feature 9 pick-up locations in or near the Cities of: Cumming, Alpharetta, Johns Creek, Canton, Sugar Hill, & Suwanee, Ga.
HOW CONNIE’S CORNUCOPIA WORKS
- Orders can be placed online anytime. Customers must place their order by Wednesday at Midnight to receive on Sunday and after. Please note that any orders placed on Thursday will go to the next weeks Pick-up or Delivery.
- Farmers/Artisans pick, and pack, on Thursday or Friday.
- Connie’s team picks up from farms on Saturday. Orders can then be picked up Sunday through Friday. Once the contents of your order is verified, the order is completed and, based on your purchase payment selection, and your payment processed via credit card, Zelle or cash at time of pick up or delivery.
- Connie will deliver to your home or work on the day and time you choose per your zip code, straight to your door! Customers are encouraged to be available during the delivery time, but if you cannot be available, please make arrangements to drop off your order inside the house, with a neighbor, or a co-worker.
- You can also select a Pick-Up Location and time.
Learn more about Connies Cornucopia.locallygrown.net and support a local business that truly has our best health in mind.
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