Community Appreciation!
- Nov 13, 2021
- 2 min read
Community is important to us - both at the Farm and the Market! During the past month, we were happy to be able to continue to offer easy ordering and pick up to our customers, share our products and see people in our local community.
Fire Prevention Month
October was Fire Prevention Month and we love to show our support to our local East Montpelier Fire Department. We were happy to provide a home cooked meal (including mac & cheese) to people that are there for our town and surrounding communities. Thank you for all you do!
East Montpelier Soccer Jamboree
We were also excited to have Fairmont Market present at our local soccer jamboree that our Recreation Department held two different weekends. The event was held right down the road from our main farm, and across the road from one of our corn fields! It was fun to actually SEE people, connect and share about who we are and what we offer. We had a selection of our beef, pork and lamb to purchase there. We were happy to be one of the sponsors of the event by donating hamburger patties to the Rec Department to sell at the concession stand, which sold out both days!
Small Business Saturday
It is hard to believe that the holiday season is here! We are looking forward to seeing more of the community at Fairmont Market on November 27th for Small Business Saturday! We are located at 141 Lyle Haven Rd in East Montpelier. Follow us on Facebook or Instagram for more information as it gets closer! Our November special promo code, BLACKFRIDAY, will still be up and running to save you 15% on orders of $75! It is a great time to think ahead for holiday meals and gift giving! Come see us!
Once again, we are grateful for our community. We feel fortunate to live in an area that supports us and look forward to seeing and meeting more of you in the future!
I recently tried Tiktokio and found it to be a simple and useful tool. It works smoothly, is easy to use, and makes downloading TikTok videos quick and hassle-free.
LBC Track and Trace is a convenient way to monitor your shipment from dispatch to delivery. The updates are easy to understand, making it simple to stay informed about your parcel's current status.
I recently tried Tiktokio and found it to be a simple and useful tool. It works smoothly, is easy to use, and makes downloading TikTok videos quick and hassle-free.
The gratitude expressed at the end of this post — "we are grateful for our community, we feel fortunate to live in an area that supports us" — is not just polite rhetoric but reflects a genuine economic and social reality that agricultural economists have documented extensively: farms that invest in community relationships consistently outperform those that do not, in terms of both financial resilience and long-term viability. The reciprocal relationship between Fairmont Farm and East Montpelier is a textbook example of the social capital theory of local economic development, where trust, reciprocity, and shared identity create economic value that is invisible on a balance sheet but absolutely real in terms of customer loyalty and community support. In my academic…
The product diversity that Fairmont Farm brings to community events — beef, pork, lamb, and Cabot cheese products — reflects a farm that has built a genuinely comprehensive local food offering rather than specializing in a single commodity. For families trying to source as much of their food as possible from local producers, having a single farm that can supply multiple protein sources and dairy products is enormously valuable, both practically and in terms of the relationship-building that comes from being a regular customer. The holiday meal framing for Small Business Saturday is also nutritionally smart — holiday meals are exactly the moments when families are most willing to invest in higher-quality local ingredients. In my nutrition education work I…