100 Stickers, get a $5 Account Credit!

We’ve come up with a fun and cost-saving way to get those pesky produce stickers out of the landfills (and our compost). Introducing the “Produce Stickers for Cash” initiative!

If you’ve lived in Ashland for a long time, you may remember the green stamps you’d collect at Buy-Rite each time you shopped there. Do you recall that blue storefront where Market of Choice is now? Once you licked enough of those stamps and stuck them on a page, you’d save some cash on your next shopping trip.

We’ve got the same idea in mind, only there’s no licking involved, and we put our stickers to good use!

How it Works

All you need to do is collect produce stickers off your fruits and veggies and stick them on a piece of wax or parchment paper. Once you get 100 stickers on a sheet, leave it out for Rogue Produce to collect, and we’ll add $5 in credit to your Rogue Produce account! You can use your credit to shop at our Online Farmers Market or apply it toward your Community Compost subscription.

You can leave your sheets of stickers for us to collect when we deliver produce on Friday, or leave them out with your food scraps on your pick-up day!

What’s to Become of the Stickers?

At Rogue Produce, we don’t like to throw anything in the trash. We will use all of the produce stickers we collect to create art! That’s right. The plan is to create mosaics with these colorful stickers, perhaps sell them someday, and donate the profits to a worthy cause. If we start collecting a lot of stickers, we may need to find some volunteer artists to support us in this endeavor. Send us an email to localtolocal@rogueproduce.com if you’re interested!

Why Stickers for Cash?

• It keeps the stickers out of the compost operations at our local farms. When the compost piles at our farm partner locations have processed into a finished product, stickers are often the only thing remaining in the mix, and it’s a bit toilsome to remove them.
• It keeps the stickers out of the landfill.
• The Stickers for Cash Initiative can save you money!
• It’s a fun, collaborative effort! We can’t wait to start making some mosaics!

When Does this Start?

The Produce Stickers for Cash initiative is live, now! Start collecting those stickers, and remember to place them on wax or parchment paper so we can easily peel them off and use them as art material.

Become a Farmers Market Member!

When you become a Farmers Market Member with Rogue Produce and begin purchasing local produce from our Online Market, you immediately support our community-building, soil-sustaining, farm-helping, and small-business-partnering efforts.

Through the end of April, we’re giving away 3 months of FREE membership with our Spring Promotion. It’s the best time to explore our service! With your Farmers Market Membership, you won’t be charged a delivery fee on your produce orders, and you get access to our weekly sales.

3 months FREE – Spring Trial Market Membership

Order weekly from a growing list of products from your favorite local farms and small businesses.
Receive access to weekly sales and have your order delivered directly to your home with no delivery fees!

Sign-up Today!

Community Compost

Another great way to support our efforts is to sign up for our weekly food scrap pick-up service, Community Compost. We’ll pick up your kitchen scraps every week and transport them to local farms, where the material is integrated into farm composting operations or used as animal feed. Learn More!

Stay in the LOOP!

If you’re not currently interested in our services, you can still sign up for our weekly newsletter to stay informed. 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!

Farmers, Friends & Family Helping Local Farms

At Rogue Produce, we’re more than just a business; we’re driven to support our local food system. Our mission goes beyond delivering fresh, farm-to-table produce; we’re about getting our hands dirty, literally, to support the foundations of our local agriculture.

We understand the challenges and hard work our local farmers face every day. That’s why we’ve taken a proactive step to organize work parties at various local farms. These gatherings are a mix of our farm partners, their families, friends, passionate about supporting local agriculture. Together, we rally at a farm site to tackle various projects. From planting and harvesting to building and maintenance, every task completed supports local farms and farmers.

These work parties are not just about the work; they’re about building a community and an opportunity to give back to those who work hard to provide us with nutritious, locally grown food.

We rely on your participation to continue these farm work parties. Every time you place an order at our Online Farmers Market, you contribute to the growth of awesome grass-roots community support projects.

Take advantage of our Spring Membership Promotion, and get 3-months with no delivery fees on your orders! We deliver directly to your door, and you get access to our weekly sales too!

Check out how much fun we had at our last work party!

OFFER ENDING SOON – Get your 3 months FREE – Spring Trial Market Membership while you still have time!

Order weekly from a growing list of products from your favorite local farms and small businesses.
Receive access to weekly sales and have your order delivered directly to your home with no delivery fees!

Sign-up Today!

Are you interested in fresh, farm-to-table news?

Sign up for the Rogue Produce newsletter to stay up-to-date on news from your favorite local farms, bakeries, creameries, artisans, and more!

Sign-Up for the Rogue Produce Newsletter Today!

Get to Know Your Vendors: Rise Up! Bakery

The Bakers of Rise Up! Bakery

Rise Up! bakery was born out of an intentional community called Full Bloom, a 280-acre community of forest and farmlands in the Little Applegate Valley. The vision for Rise Up! was to create a company that baked wholesome, delicious local artisan bread and positively impacted the community, including people, flora, and fauna.

“When we first decided to start a bakery, it was to create a livelihood consistent with our vision for sustainability. This is why we are and will always be determined to stay small and local.”

Mission

Rise Up’s mission is to offer the Rogue Valley the finest local artisan bread, using organic, pesticide-free, GMO-free, and locally sourced ingredients whenever possible. Adhering to the slow food and local food movements, they are now purchasing local, heirloom varieties of wheat grown by Fry Family Farm! Purchasing Rise Up breads through Rogue Produce is a great way to support a network of beneficial actors, hard at work here in Southern Oregon!

Rise Up! is known for its delicious, good-for-you bread

The bakery’s sourdough culture produces bread that is easier to digest. Some of their bread, like Little Applegate and Sesame sourdough varieties, use minimal commercial yeast (less than 0.4 grams per loaf) to enhance the bread’s volume.

Little Applegate Sourdough ~ best sandwich bread is a favorite with Rogue Produce customers. Order yours today!

For their non-sourdough selections, such as sprouted multigrain, ciabattas, and focaccias, Rise Up! uses pre-fermented dough. This approach reduces the reliance on commercial yeast and improves the bread’s digestibility and flavor. Moreover, Rise Up! commits to using unenriched flour to help prevent allergic reactions to potato starch. (Potato starch is often involved in the enrichment process of flour because it serves as a carrier for added vitamins and minerals.) Through these practices, every loaf of Rise Up! artisan bread tastes delicious and is a healthy alternative to commercial bread. 

The Llopis Oven is central to the bakery’s operation, integrated into the building’s construction. This impressive wood-burning oven, nearly 13 feet in diameter and 7 feet tall, was built by two visiting Spaniards over eight days in September 2008. Its design allows for sustainable wood usage from local sources, maintaining a constant temperature between 350-550 degrees. The oven’s rotating stone hearth facilitates the baking of 90 to 150 loaves at a time, exemplifying efficiency and care for both the environment and the health of those involved in the baking process.

In July 2009, after refining their recipes and mastering wood-fired baking techniques, the bakery was ready for operation, supported by the collective efforts of local artisans, friends, and family. Everyone at Rise Up! remains deeply appreciative of the community’s contribution, acknowledging that its success and the quality of its bread are directly attributable to these collaborative efforts.

3 months FREE – Spring Trial Market Membership

Order weekly from a growing list of products (including Breads from Rise Up! Bakery) from your favorite local farms and small businesses.
Receive access to weekly sales and have your order delivered directly to your home with no delivery fees!

Sign-up Today!

Featured Favorites

Local artisan breads, especially sourdough, are favorites with Rogue Produce Customers. The Little Applegate Sourdough is one of the valley’s best sandwich breads, and is made in part with wheat grown locally on Fry Family Farm! Compared to industrial wheat, this local wheat has a delicious nutty flavor.  Add a loaf or two to your cart this week, and see for yourself!

Heirloom wheat grown by Fry Family Farm

In 2021 Fry Family Farm joined Chris Hardy’s heritage grain initiative. Hardy initially distributed small quantities of seeds to local farmers to cultivate and expand seed stocks for future harvests. It took two years to grow enough wheat for both seed stock and flour production. The flour for Rise Up’s bread comes from Fry Family Farm’s 2023 harvest.

Fry Family Farm is currently growing ancient and heritage grains, such as Rouge de Bordeaux—a red hard wheat, a Ukrainian hard red wheat, and a purple Tibetan barley. These ancient grains are known for their high protein and low gluten content and are believed to retain their original nutritional properties. As with all of their produce, the wheat is certified organic.

This year, Fry Family Farm has introduced five or six new varieties into their cultivation and is anticipating a broader production scale.  This expansion aims to supply a larger quantity of these nutritious grains to more bakers and retail outlets.

Rogue Valley Heritage Grains Project

Where to find Rise Up! Artisan Bread

Local Growers markets, Ashland & Medford Food Coop, Market of Choice, Shop N Kart, Gooseberries, also local restaurants Lark’s, Ruby’s, Carson’s Bistro, The Twisted Cork

Giving Back to the Community ~ Supporting Local Non-Profits

Rise Up! donates on average of $8000 per year in bread and money to local non-profits. 

To learn more about Rise Up! and the Full Bloom Community, visit their site at riseupartisanbread.com.

Rise Up! Bakery, Rogue Valley Sourdough

Join us in Celebrating Local Flavors

We hope you enjoy this article about a long-time partner of Rogue Produce. For over a decade, it has been our mission to support our region’s small farms and local businesses. We bring you these articles as often as possible so you can get to know the people you are supporting every time you purchase through our Online Farmers Market.

Thank you for taking the time to explore our blog. We invite you to share our content and assist in spreading the word about the incredible agricultural community in our region—a community we’re dedicated to nurturing and expanding. Your support can help others discover and appreciate this vital area of our collective life.

Let’s continue to nurture these connections, one delicious bite at a time.

ORDER your Rise Up! Bread today for the next HOME DELIVERY!

Are you interested in fresh, farm-to-table news?

Sign up for the Rogue Produce newsletter to stay up-to-date on news from your favorite local farms, bakeries, creameries, artisans, and more!

Sign-Up for the Rogue Produce Newsletter Today!