Here is a list of the crucial concepts when considering how your business and your kitchen can integrate GROWN Locally into your purchasing plan. We have been selling to local institutions since 1998 and have refined this list to be an effective and viable business plan.

• Quality - our number 1 concern. We base all our decisions on whether something we do affects our quality standards. We address this concept by offering only our best products, picking our fresh produce as close to delivery as possible -= mostly within hours of your receiving them, maintaining a clear set of quality standards for ourselves and offering only products which meet them. We expect of ourselves to produce and deliver better products across the board so your experioence with our products is always a rewarding one. We stand behind this one hundred percent.

• Service - When you do business with GROWN Locally you can expect us to be responsive to your questions and comments. We are timely in our deliveries, you should be able to make orders without hassle - and and if you have one, we will make it right and we try to be sensitive to the pressures and demands of your business by being punctual and accurate.

• Local - GROWN Locally serves only our northeast Iowa region. We feel that this is a distinct advantage for both us and for you. Our delivery area is small and so is our cooperative, giving you access to the actual growers and producers of the good you buy from us. We will know you personally and give you the service to match this relationship. What better way to get the results you need.

• Affordable - Our prices reflect not only the fact that you have a budget to which you need to respond, but also to what our farms and cooperative need to have to continue in business. Our goal is not to sell you a few products a couple of times. We are only interested in developing a long lasting relationship with you and your institution. We cannot do this if we are out of business so we are constantly aware of our sustainable future.

• Small - GROWN Locally is a 14 member cooperative. We are not a large, nationwide distributor. But we are a dependable and afordable source for diverse locally produced, high -quality products. There are many advantages in being small to both you and us. The most important is that we can and will be ready to work with you individually to meet your food service needs and do it in ways in which it is beneficial to us all.

GROWN Locally

776 Old Stage Road

Postville, IA 52162

563.864.3847

563.382.9255

Add It! order # - 563.380.9848