Good-Natured Nutrition
Good-Natured Nutrition
One of the most important parts of our day-to-day work is the ability to lift other local businesses along the way. Here are just a few of the ways we incorporate them:
Ingredients
Marketing
We are also part of the Elder Farms Collective which includes 20-plus farms we buy additional elderberry from if we run through all our supplies producing products for you.
Most weeks, you can find us at local farmers markets and festivals, primarily the Lenexa Farmers Market which we call home.
We MUST support LOCAL SMALL BUSINESS because of the Multiplier Effect. That means that money spent at a local business circulates repeatedly within the community, generating additional income and jobs for other local businesses, thus having a greater overall impact on the local economy compared to spending at a large chain store where profits may leave the area.
If you buy elderberry at a big chain it’s sourced overseas and big chain profits leave the area. This is the AMERICAN ELDERBERRY native plant to Kansas and Nebraska. Support local farm businesses and our local food networks become stronger and local means we can prevent supply chain disruptions.
It’s cold and flu season! We have LIONBERRY!
LIONBERRY by Mama Pajama Elderberry SIPS a local farm and business will be there, along with MANY, MANY awesome local businesses!!!
People act like small batch is a hobby.
Nope.
Every bottle from a small farmer is a value-added product inside a value food chain.
That chain is made of humans, not container ships.
If global trade gets tariffed to death, or the truckers strike, or a war kicks off, or a fuel shortage hits, or a natural disaster…guess what?
Walmart will not be driving to Thailand for pineapple juice.
Local food is the only thing that can actually disrupt the global supply chain — in a good way.
And here’s the delusion:
Everyone thinks “we’ll connect with the local farmers when we need them.”
Nope.
If the shelves go empty, it’s already too late.
Now is the time to get the relationships built. The value chain in motion.
Now is the time to slot locals in the stores — even if it’s as “novelty items” at first on a local farm shelf.
Because when the global pipeline hiccups?
The people who will actually feed your region
aren’t the ones with the biggest warehouses.
Shop local or… we’ll be learning how to season cardboard and call it rustic.
