Last minute gift ideas? Illinois Farm Bureau’s Raghela Scavuzzo has a great online resource involving Illinois products.
“You are going to specialtygrowers.org/shoplocal or if you are a Farm Bureau member, you can go into your membership app and shop local through that. This is a local food directory and when I say food, it is actually food and farm, which means it is value added production, its flowers, its Christmas trees. This is your chance to really consider buying and shopping small business and for last minute gifts this is phenomenal because they are right in their own community,” states Scavuzzo.
“You can search by geographic location; you can search by product. You can get things from candles, to soaps, to lotions, to honey, to jams, to jellies, even some locally grown produce and other foods if you still trying to source your dinner as well,” Scavuzzo adds.
The directory features 2,469 Illinois businesses.
***Courtesy of farmweeknow.com***
