Farm to School, Local Produce for Kids – Let’s Make it Happen!

March 23, 2025

A Campaign for Kids

Connecting kids and farms since 2009!

It’s fair to say that many of us can take our eyes off the ball when it comes to the nutrition of our kids. It’s challenging enough within the home to provide children with a healthy breakfast, lunch, and dinner – and perhaps even more challenging to make sure kids are eating healthy foods at school. You may go to the effort of packing your child a healthy lunch, only to have them toss it aside and grab the cheese pizza or nachos at their school cafeteria. Rogue Valley Farm to School has been addressing nutrition issues like these by leading an effort in Southern Oregon to get local foods into school cafeterias, and now you can help support this cause by becoming a Farmers Market Member with Rogue Produce and shopping local at our Online Farmers Market.

Rogue Produce has started a focused campaign to get the Medford School District on board with Rogue Valley Farm to School. This effort will help get more locally grown foods into the cafeterias of Medford schools, and give students an opportunity to engage with our local small farm community through a variety of enriching and educational activities throughout the school year.

Rogue Produce is now donating 100% of fees collected from NEW MEMBERSHIPS (become a member now) through the month of April to Rogue Valley Farm to School to help them build a partnership with the Medford School District. And, for the month of April, Rogue Produce is also donating 3% of ALL produce sales to this effort!

What Happens When I Become a Member?

Get kids to the farm!

First of all, your membership fees from now through April will be donated to Rogue Valley Farm to School. Once a member, you can start ordering produce from our Online Farmers Market and receive HOME DELIVERY with NO FEES! You also get access to all of the sale prices we post on our site every week. 3% of your produce purchases in April are also going to Rogue Valley Farm to School. When you participate in this campaign, you and your community benefit by:

Educating children about our food system through hands-on farm and garden programs!
Increasing local foods in school meals!
Enjoying shopping at our Online Farmers Market and purchasing local foods from your favorite farmers, bakers, ranchers, fisherman, and more!

Supporting Local on Many Fronts

Serving Southern Oregon Since 2011!

From its inception, the mission of Rogue Produce has been to support local agriculture. Every week we purchase fresh produce, fresh baked breads, local meats, cheeses and much more – supporting many of the small local farms and businesses our community loves. We also support local farms by bringing them fresh food-scraps through our Community Compost program. But, we must do more! We love the fact that we bring local foods to your kitchen table, but we want to do the same thing for the kids in our schools!

That’s why we’ve decided to partner with Rogue Valley Farm to School (RVF2S), who has been working for years to get the kids in our schools out to local farms, and local foods into our school cafeterias. Check out what RVF2S has achieved, just in the last year, by reading their latest 2023/2024 Impact Report.

By becoming a Farmers Market Member today, your dollars go toward supporting local in a big way, and you get to enjoy amazing foods from small farms and businesses, with FREE HOME DELIVERY! Check out some of these great local products available at our Online Farmers Market:

That’s just a small sample of the huge variety of produce available at our Online Farmers Market. We source locally year round, and purchase organic produce not available in our region through an Oregon based distributor, Organically Grown Company.

Efforts Will Continue – Stay Informed!

This is just the beginning of our campaign for kids. At the conclusion of this initial fund-raiser we will continue to assist in the effort of getting local and healthy food options on the menu at our schools. To Rogue Produce, healthy food for our kids is one of those “no-brainers,” and we’re grateful that we have an organization in our community like Rogue Valley Farm to School that is working effectively to achieve this goal.

Stay tuned by signing up for our email newsletter. We will be sending out regular reports after our initial fund-raiser concludes and sharing ideas about our next steps. RVF2S has been successful in working with several of the school districts in our area, and we’re confident they can be successful in Medford too.

Please help us in this campaign by becoming a Farmers Market Member, and we look forward to serving you with the best of local! And, if you have any questions or would just like to drop us a line, send us an email to localtolocal@rogueproduce.com.

Roxyann Winery, Rogue Produce Drop Site

February 23, 2025

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Shop Local, Pick Up at Roxyann Winery

Roxyann Winery is a second generation family-run business. Open daily, Roxyann Winery offers spacious indoor and heated outdoor seating, tasting flights and glasses, bottle pick-up, charcuterie and food trucks on site, and a friendly staff. Support local by enjoying exceptional wine in this historic, family friendly setting – and pick up your order from Rogue Produce while you’re here!

Rogue Produce partners with Roxyann Winery to make shopping local easier and more convenient. Become a Roxyann Drop Site Member, for FREE, and start ordering today from the Rogue Produce Online Farmers Market. With a free membership, you pay no delivery fees, get access to our weekly sales, and pick-up your order of local produce at Roxyann Winery every Friday afternoon (every Friday you place an order, that is – there’s no obligation to order every week).

Roxyann is the place to be for family friendly entertainment on a Friday night, and that’s when Rogue Produce delivers! Check out their event calendar to see the schedule of music, dance, trivia and more. Finish off your week with some fun and head home with a bag or two (or three) of your favorite local produce.

How the Roxyann Winery Drop Site Works

The first step is to sign-up for the Roxyann Drop Site Membership, for FREE. The membership removes the standard $12 delivery fee from your orders, and gives you access to our weekly sales.

Once you’ve checked out with your membership, head to our Shop Page, and place an order by 6:00pm on Tuesday. Rogue Produce delivers your order to Roxyann Winery on Friday by 1:00pm, and you can pick it up by 5:30pm.

You’re never obliged to place an order – just order “a la carte” from the wide variety of local produce items on our Online Farmer’s Market, whenever you want!

Direct Delivery: If you’re looking for direct delivery to your home on Fridays, our regular Farmers Market Membership is the way to go. For a monthly fee of $16.95, you can order anytime you’d like with no delivery fees and access to our weekly sales!

Drop Site Locations to Support Local Businesses

Whether you live outside of our direct delivery range, or you just want to save money by not paying delivery fees, we have an ideal drop site location for you! And we’re regularly adding new locations! So go ahead, support local!

Roxyann Winery

If you live or work around North Medford, stop by Roxyann Winery on Friday afternoons to pick up your orders from Rogue Produce! While you’re there, listen to local music, enjoy a glass of wine, and hang out with friends and family.

The Oregon Cheese Cave, Phoenix

If you live in or around Phoenix, this is the pick up location for you! You can pick up your order and shop the incredible assortment of fine cheeses available at the Cheese Cave. And while you’re there, grab an espresso from Adam at the coffee shop!

You can sign up for The Oregon Cheese Cave Drop Site, and pick up your orders on Fridays at 312 N Main St, Unit A, Phoenix 97535.

Rusted Gate Farm Store, Central Point

Pick up your orders on Fridays, and while you’re there, shop more local farm and artisan products at the Rusted Gate Farm Store. This drop site location is located at 5700 Upton Road, in Central Point, 97502.

Black Barn Kitchen, Jacksonville

Pick up your order in Jacksonville and check out this new restaurant located at the old Schoolhouse and Brewhouse!

Pick up between 2pm and 6pm every Friday, at 525 Bigham Knoll Dr, Jacksonville. Black Barn Kitchen Drop Site.

Mystic Valley Tea Shop, Rogue River

The Mystic Valley Farm and Tea Shop is the Drop-Site for you! Located at 102 E Main St Unit E, Rogue River, 97537. Mystic Valley is a new vendor on our Online Farmer’s Market, featuring teas with locally grown herbs, and so much more! Sign-up today for the Rogue River Drop-Site Membership at Mystic Valley Farm and Tea Shop.

Ashland, Heartsong Nutrition

Place your order by Tuesday at 4pm, and pick-up at Heartsong Nutrition between 2:30pm and 5:30pm on Fridays. Heartsong Nutrition is located at 1461 Siskiyou Blvd, in Ashland, in the Market of Choice Shopping Center. Pick up a fresh organic juice while you’re there! Sign-up today for the Heartsong Nutrition Drop Site!

Main Street Coffee House, Eagle Point

Pick up your orders at your cozy neighborhood coffee shop! We drop off orders on Fridays at 2pm, and you can pick up by 4pm. Located at 115 W Main St, Eagle Point. Main Street Coffee House Drop Site.

Direct Delivery Options

If you prefer delivery directly to your home, Rogue Produce delivers right to your door in Ashland, Talent, Medford, Phoenix, Central Point, White City, Jacksonville and other nearby areas. You have the option to pay a $12 delivery fee, or, become a Farmers Market Member for $16.95/month, and delivery fees are waived on all of your orders, plus you get access to our weekly sales!

Become a “Rogue Pro”

Every order you place through the Rogue Produce Online Market benefits small local farms, local food producers, and our local food system as a whole – in ways you may not be aware of. Did you know that Rogue Produce also operates Community Compost? Our compost operation provides weekly pick-up of residential and commercial food scraps and transports these materials to local farms to integrate with their on site composting efforts (and to help feed their animals). The composting program saves local farmers time and money and builds connections between growers, small businesses, and consumers.

When you shop through our online market, you’re not just getting the best of local produce – you’re supporting a growing network of small farms and businesses that are making great strides in smart resource management. For example, some of the small businesses (Vida Bakery, Mix, etc.) we purchase products from are customers of our compost service. That means that Rogue Produce picks up the kitchen scraps (lots of them) from these businesses, diverts the material from the land-fill, and transports it to local farms. Farmers process the scraps into compost to nourish their soil and grow more crops for us all to enjoy! You’re helping to support local sustainability every time you place an order!

Stay in the LOOP and Support Local!

If you’re not currently interested in our services, you can still sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay informed of more ways you can support local. We’ll keep you posted on farm events, local food stories, compost lore, farm work parties, promotions, and so much more!

Subscribe to the Rogue Produce Newsletter Today!

Going Full Circle: A Smart Food System

January 12, 2025

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Exploring the Circle

There’s no beginning or end point in our food system. No matter what, you get your food from somewhere and from someone; you discard your food scraps somehow and they end up going somewhere and transforming into something. Wouldn’t it be great if you could know all these “somehows”, “someones” and “somewheres”, and be confident that all of these places, processes and people are being nourished by (and nourishing) the food system?

There are a lot of pieces involved in a food system: the foods we grow, the soils we grow in, the farmers that farm, the animals that live on the farms, the businesses that sell and distribute the food, the people that buy the food, the people who discard the food scraps, the businesses that pick up the food scraps, the people that compost (or don’t compost the food scraps), and so on. There’s a lot involved, and every piece of the process is important.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be part of a food system in which you know all of the players? A system in which you meet the growers, visit the farms, contribute to the health of the soil and animals, and interact with businesses owned and operated by people in your community? This food system is one that is accountable to you, and that is transparent to you, because you’re a part of it and it’s all happening in your community.

This is the kind of food system that Rogue Produce, our partners, and our customers are creating in Southern Oregon. We say our operations go “full circle,” and more specifically, “from farm, to table, to farm!” This means we’re keeping things local, and we’re keeping you informed of all the magic that happens when you support a smart local food system.

A Full Circle Food System

We can start at any point on the circle, but let’s begin at your kitchen table. The “Rogue Produce” side of our operation delivers local produce to your door every Friday. We work with local farms who are either certified organic, or use regenerative methods of growing with no chemical fertilizers, pesticides or GMOs. Any fresh fruits or vegetables for sale on our Online Farmers Market that we can’t procure locally, we source through an Oregon based organic distributor, Organically Grown Company.

In addition to fruits and veggies, we stock our list with your favorite local artisan breads, meats, cheeses, and so much more! Many of the local products we source are not available in all stores or at the Farmer’s Market, but we provide a convenient place to shop them all. You can view all of our farm and small business partners at the Farmers and Producers tab on our website.

We also offer options for our customers to save money! Instead of direct home delivery, you can sign-up as a drop-site member and pick up your order every week at one of our convenient locations. As a drop-site member you pay no membership or delivery fees, and you still get access to the sales we post at our Online Farmers Market every week.

If you want the convenience of direct home delivery you can purchase one of our standard Farmer’s Market Memberships and delivery fees are removed on all orders, and you get access to our weekly sales!

The Food Scraps

Now we move to the other arm of our operation and the next point on the circle, Community Compost. After meal time is over, what do you do with your food scraps? Community Compost provides a multitude of options to get your food scraps diverted from the landfill and delivered to local farms (the next point in the circle). Our local farm partners transform tons (literally) of food scraps they receive from local residents and businesses into nourishing compost for their soils. Here’s a quote from one of our composting farm partners, Thomas Petersen, of Evers Ridge Farm in Medford:

Thomas and Hannah Petersen of Evers Ridge Farm

“Starting our farm from scratch we realized the immense need for quality compost to improve soil health and increase water retention. When we found the food compost program from Rogue Produce it turned a huge expense into an affordable partnership. We’ve been able to process over 60k pounds of food scraps in the past couple of years then mix it with manure or leaves to make over 100k lbs of compost for our farm, and we could use much more. As a local farmer in the valley, we need more of these food waste programs so we can decrease the cost of compost for farmers and to help return the waste in our systems back into soil health.”

Going full circle isn’t always easy, but it’s pretty simple – and the more we run the circle the easier it gets, and the more everyone and everything within the circle benefits. It’s taken over 12 years of operating Rogue Produce to build the relationships and set up the logistics to effectively collect and transport food scraps from homes and businesses to local farms, and we’d love your help in continuing to make it grow!

Community Compost provides direct home pick up of your food scraps on a weekly basis. And, we have cost saving options for this service too! If you don’t want to pay the fee for direct home pick up, we have drop-sites around the valley where you can drop your food scraps off at a lower rate – or even at no cost to you at all! Go ahead and explore the options and see if there is a right fit for you.

This is how our full circle food system works at Rogue Produce. We list produce from local farms and small businesses for sale on our Online Farmers Market. Customers purchase from our website and we deliver! Customers sign-up for one of our Community Compost services and set out (or drop off) their food scraps every week. We pick up the food scraps and deliver them to local farms. The scraps are cultivated into compost and fed to the soil, the farmers grow more food, and we all get to enjoy the local bounty!

At Rogue Produce, we are so grateful for every customer, farm, small business and organization that plays a part – and we’d love for you to join in the fun! Check out our website for more information, or give us a call at 541-301-3426.

If it’s not the right time for you to sign-up, stay informed by signing up for our free newsletter.

See you around!

Great Ways to Save and Support Local in 2025

December 29, 2024

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Save Time, Save Money, and Support Local

Rogue Produce offers your favorite local products for online ordering and home delivery. That means we deliver your favorite local produce, including meat, cheese, bread (and so much more) – right to your door! There’s no need to spend time and money driving around town to support local – we bring it to you. And, in 2025, we are continuing our efforts to make our service ever more convenient, economical, and innovative. Our goal is to make supporting local fun, affordable, informative, healthy, sustainable, and yummy for our Southern Oregon community.

Extended Benefits

When you shop through our online market, you’re not just getting the best of local produce – you’re supporting a growing network of small farms and businesses that are making great strides in sustainability. For example, some of the small businesses (Vida Bakery, Mix, etc.) we purchase products from are customers of our compost service. That means that Rogue Produce picks up the kitchen scraps (lots of them) from these businesses, diverts the material from the land-fill, and transports it to local farms. Farmers process the scraps into compost to nourish their soil and grow more crops for us all to enjoy! You’re helping to support local sustainability every time you place an order!

Free Membership for Drop Site Pick Up

One of the ways Rogue Produce is saving you money in 2025 is by expanding our Drop Site Membership program. Our regular Farmer’s Market Membership is a deal at $16.95 a month (giving you free home delivery for every order), but now you can get a FREE membership when you choose to pick up your orders at one of our convenient drop sites. You can now order through our Online Market and pick up your order at convenient locations in Ashland, Phoenix, Central Point, Eagle Point, Rogue River, and Jacksonville!

How Drop Sites Work

The first step is to sign-up for the most convenient Drop Site Membership, for FREE. The membership removes the standard $12 delivery fee from your orders, and gives you access to our weekly sales.

Once you’ve checked out with your membership, head to our Shop Page, and place an order by 6:00pm on Tuesday. Rogue Produce delivers your orders to the drop site that is most convenient for you (or to your home if you are a Farmer’s Market Member), every Friday.

You’re never obliged to place an order – just order “a la carte” from the wide variety of local produce items on our Online Farmer’s Market, whenever you want!