We’ve got a busy couple of weeks up ahead! Here’s a little rundown.
Farmers Market
There is no market this upcoming Saturday the 17th. We’ll have a super, super, super, super, super soft one day only opening at the new space on the 17th. We are doing the Eat to Live Vegan Festival on Saturday the 24 so we won’t be at the market.
Pop-up @ Boycott
Sept 14 & 21: as long as the weather’s cooperating these are on. We got about 70lbs of apples recently so for at least the 14th we’ll have smoked apples on the breakfast sandwiches again. Maybe we’ll switch it up to some maitake for the 21?
Super, Super, Super, Super, Super Soft One Day Only Opening
Sept 17, 8AM-Noon: We thought this upcoming weekend would be a good time to let you all into the store and see what we’ve done so far! It’ll be a scaled back version of farmers market goods and we’ll be doing breakfast sandwiches plus sausage biscuits HOT to order. If you’re reading this, well, you’re the first to hear about it! It’ll go to social media by Thursday.
Eat to Live Vegan Festival
Sept 24, 11AM-6PM at Grind City Brewing: this is open to the public and free to attend. Purchases can be made from the different vendors. We’ll be out there slingin’ sandwiches and probably some unique things that we don’t normally do (maybe a fried rice, maybe some cold lunch style sandwiches, maybe some smoked tofu to take home and use as you like). We hope this puts in front of some new folks and helps spread the word about the store opening.
Store Opening
We’re really hoping to have the store open by the end of the year, ideally in November some time. We’re working with the Southeast Center for Cooperative Development to try and secure a loan via the New Economy of Tennessee Fund that is ultimately funded through Seed Commons. Securing a little more funding is somewhat crucial to us being able to hire some folks and start paying ourselves. Very important factors to actually having the store open 😀 Our loan is up for review Sept. 15 so maybe we’ll know more after that! If you know anyone who might be interested in working with us here’s a job post that we’ve put together. We’re not quite ready to start hiring but we will be soon.