Grower Steve Murray with just harvested Tulare cherries at his farm near Arvin.

Southland Farmers' Market Association

Discount Programs

TRAVELODGE OFFERS DISCOUNT TO SOUTHLAND MEMBERS

Travelodge has announced a discount program for all Southland members. The program will provide members with a rate that is at least ten percent off the regular rate at all participating locations.

When booking your reservations at (800) 578-7878, inform the reservation agent that you are eligible for a corporate discount rate and provide them with Southland’s account number (801155).

The Corporate Rate Program may not be available at every property every day of the year; blackout dates may apply during special event periods. Call ahead and check the dates that you are requesting.

NEED A WEBSITE TO PROMOTE YOUR MARKET?

OR A BETTER ONE THAN THE ONE YOU HAVE?

Southland Farmers’ Market Association has made arrangements to offer its member markets — at a very low cost — the opportunity to have a simple webpage created and put online to better promote their markets. Your individual webpage could show a photo or photos of your market, describe its special features, give explicit parking directions and provide other specifics unique to your market.

To create your market’s webpage:

• Choose from one of five professional web designs. (The design you choose will then be removed from the choices available to other markets so the design will be unique to your site. It is a copyrighted design, so others can’t replicate them.)
• Depending on the design chosen, provide one or two color photos (digital or prints) and the headlines and text in the length the page can accommodate. Or send a good color print which will be scanned.
• The process includes two rounds of minor revisions.
• Your web address will be both:

  www.sfma.net/[yourcityname] and
  www.cafarmersmarkets.org/[yourcityname]

The cost is $180 for the design of the web page as described above plus $5.00 per month hosting fees. A second page, based on the first page’s design, can be created for an additional $75. Annual updates or other relatively minor changes to the page would cost $60. (These prices are significantly lower than other alternatives particularly given the exceptional quality and appearance of the designs being offered. For this reason the offer does not include editing or writing services.)

Your first year’s total cost for a single page would be $240.00. Thereafter your per annum cost will be $60.00, excluding the optional annual update fee. Design and hosting fees maybe paid in full at the start of each year or on a monthly basis at $20.00 per month for the first year and $5.00 per month thereafter.

Southland is making this special offer to create a custom web page at an affordable price for a limited time. Any additional revisions, changes or custom work during the initial design process or thereafter would mean additional charges at the rate of $60/hour. Custom website designs are available through Organic-Design.net at the same hourly rate. For more information about custom web designs, visit Organic-Design.net (click on the link at the bottom of this column).

To learn more, contact: Stacy in the SFMA office, (310) 506-9112, ext. 10; email address: Stacy@sfma.net

To see the five available designs, click here. From each design, click in the upper left corner to see the next design.

Photos by David Karp

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