Local Connections

Local Connections

Explore businesses in the Pee Dee and South Carolina providing local food and food products that help to create a sustainable lifestyle.

  • 212 Meal Prep

    Conway, SC
    (843) 457-3056

    Choose, order and pick up individual healthy meals each week from the Fitness Forum in Florence or beach locations.

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  • Brooklyn South Deli

    16 W Cedar St
    Florence, SC
    (843) 319-0107

    Food Truck, Farmers’ Market Booth & Catering Business. Specializing in homemade dishes with Italian roots.

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  • Carolina Plantation Rice

    Darlington, SC

    Order online or find at local stores – products include locally grown rice, grits, rice and corn flour and cowpeas.

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  • Cashua Coffee by Dowling Farms

    762 Andrews Mill Rd
    Timmonsville, SC
    (843) 992-2083

    Coffee is organic, shade grown, sustainably grown, locally roasted weekly.

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  • Clean Eatz

    1988 W Palmetto St
    Florence, SC
    (843) 407-1114

    Eat in or order meals prepared ahead.

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  • Convenient Crockpot Creations

    1310 Celebration Blvd
    Florence, SC
    (513) 277-1432

    Prep crockpot, skillet and foil meals in a group or individually. Makes meal prep easy for families!

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  • Cotton Branch Farm Sanctuary

    328 Lightwood Knot Rd
    Leesville, SC 29070
    (704) 712-1802

    A farm sanctuary providing a safe haven for abused, neglected or elderly farm animals and education for the public on farming techniques and promote compassionate choices for consumption of animal products.

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  • Crafty Maibritt

    2621 Patty Road
    Lake City, SC 29560
    (843) 373-1856

    Find her at the City Center Farmers Market with a varied selection of homemade goods like soaps, knitted accessories, also her own honey, herbs and when in season, fresh turmeric.

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  • Ellerbe Vegetable Farm

    Florence, SC
    (843) 407-6133

    Find them often at City Center Farmers Market providing fresh organic produce with weekly farm shares available.

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  • Florence City Center Farmers Market

    369 W. Cheves Street
    Florence, SC
    (843) 665-2047

    Local farmers offer visitors fresh produce, dairy, artisan food and crafts each Saturday behind the City of Florence Offices.

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  • G Squared Urban Farms

    1671 Vox Highway
    Johnsonville, SC
    (843) 687-0959

    MAKE GROWING GREEN EASY. Aeroponically grown clean, chemical free produce and seedlings offered to our community as we support the need for whole food.

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  • The Healthy Food Store

    2051 Elijah Ludd Rd
    Florence, SC
    (843) 629-9204

    Health food store with dry and canned goods, bulk and packaged, medicinal teas, dietary supplements, personal hygiene items and more.

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  • Lamb’s Produce Stand

    419 Second Loop Rd
    Florence, SC
    (843) 665-6604

    Fresh produce and flowers. Open March to end of December.

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  • Lone Palmetto Farms

    656 Windham Town Rd
    Lamar, SC
    (843) 731-4398

    Goat Dairy & Creamery with products that include: milk, frozen custard, farmstead goat cheese, pastured poultry, fresh eggs, goat milk soaps, natural bath & body products and soy lotion candles.

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  • Maypop Farm

    Darlington, SC
    (843) 395-0793

    Maypop Farm has the best eatin’ chicken in the Carolinas. The chickens are raised by David White on a family farm in Darlington, SC.

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  • McLeod Farms/Mac’s Pride

    29247 Hwy 151
    McBee, SC
    (843) 335-8335

    Fourth generation peach farm since 1916. Open year round with peaches and other produce along with an antique museum with old cars and farm equipment. They offer spring and fall festivals annually.

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  • Microledon Farm

    Conway, SC
    (813) 361-3863

    Urban farm, growing microgreens

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  • Nature’s Alternatives

    1301 W Evans St
    Florence SC
    (843) 669-4372

    Health food store with dietary supplements: vitamins, minerals, herbs and food products for humans and pets.

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  • Plant Empowered Florence

    Florence SC

    A PlantPure Pod in Florence, SC whose members are committed to learning about and practicing a whole food, plant-based lifestyle. They are an inclusive and inviting group that welcomes anyone interested in a diet that is kind to our bodies, animals, and our planet!

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  • Pee Dee Farmers Market

    2513 W Lucas St
    Florence SC
    (843) 665-5154

    Situated on fifty-five acres of once rural farmland and open year round, the market showcases some of the state’s freshest and finest produce and has also become a prime location for the ornamental horticulture and floriculture industry. Fall and spring plant and flower shows annually

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  • Pluff Mud Recycling

    Darlington, SC
    (843) 393-0202

    Pluffmud Recycling was founded to offer schools, hospitals, businesses, and residents an easy and convenient way to recycle.

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  • Reed’s Microgreens

    8312 Bucksport Heights Ct. Conway SC 29527

    Rooted in your health and dependently fresh, Niki Reed grows sustainable microgreens year-round.  You can order online or visit her site to find pickup and farmer’s market locations.

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  • Sassafras Nursery & Herbs

    3221 Hwy 319
    Aynor, SC
    (843) 997-6326

    Often at City Center Farmers Market. Specializes in unique selection of flowers, medicinal, culinary and ornamental herbs as well as unusual trees and shrubs.

    And no neonicotinoids!

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  • SC Real Foods

    1225 Celebration Blvd
    Florence SC 29501
    (843) 235-1175

    SC Real Foods works with local partners to offer fresh, organic ready-to-eat meal prep dishes that can be purchased a la carte, by the pound, as well as specialty bakery goods.

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