Bluebird Market is a Thomaston, Georgia organic co-op farmers market.  Local community gardeners, artisans and growers may market their goods and produce.

Open Saturdays from 8 am until noon, 218 N. Center Street, Thomaston, GA.

FYI: Top Ten Reasons to Buy Local at the Bluebird Market

1. What is Bluebird Market and CSA? Bluebird Market is more than a farmers market of pleasant and charming life enrichment.  Bluebird Market and CSA is a sustainability initiative to bring vibrancy where it belongs with our local people and Georgia made and grown weekly produce share boxes.
2. What is my part in better sustaining our community? Redirect $10.00 to Buy Local One-Day-a-Week.  UGA studies show if each household in Georgia spends $10 weekly on Georgia grown produce a $1.9 BILLION boost to the Georgia economy!

3. How will Bluebird Market help my family? Not only is shopping local at a farmer’s market listed as one of 9 top ways to enrich our lives on MSN, it brings vibrancy back to where it belongs with local families rather than into warehouses of goods directed by corporate boardrooms.
4. What Does it Mean if We Redirect $10.00 to Buy Georgia grown produce Weekly? The impact when we buy local is fuel savings, healthier & fresher foods for our families, and a vibrant local ecomony with an immediate do-it-yourself stimulus boost to our local people.  For the Georgia economy if each household spends $10 weekly on Georgia produce it means at $1.9 BILLION boost!!
5. How does my 10.00 count? The collective power of one. Let’s explore together below how it adds up for well oiled corporate chainstores in approximate figures with a proforma (best case scenario) to see what is possible when we work together.
6. Don’t we need outside assistance to boost our economy? When you read the figure $1 Billion for local Georgia people, it appears untouchable. In reality this is a figure that is already within our reach every year and our choices have been to direct this collective big blank check to corporate chainstores rather than Georgia producers like you and me!
7. Where would this come from when I am already struggling to make ends meet? Collectively, we already have this amount as spending power .  The key is to redirect a small portion to buy local.  Our collective power of one is strong and we each can do our part in a small but meaningful way to make an impact. We encourage you to Buy Local and redirect $10.00 weekly as your part to make an impact.
8. Who can join this effort?
Everyone is invited to buy/sell locally grown or locally made whether it is fresh tomatoes or a loaf of fresh homebaked banana bread. Bluebird Market is first and foremost for locally grown products but just as vital are local handmade products. The market cost for vendors is $5.00 AFTER you sell $20.00 of product. The Department of Ag has stated we can sell homemade at the Bluebird Market like a bake sale without being a certified kitchen.  

9. How do I Take the Pledge?
We want our children to love their hometown and believe there is no place on earth where the quality of life is better than Thomaston, Georgia.   Pledge today to buy Georgia grown and made weekly!!

 10. When is Bluebird Market Opening Day?
Bluebird Market opens this Saturday, June 6. Enjoy local vendors and fun demonstrations on the big screen at 215 Barnesville Street (former R.C. Cola Building) across from Big Chic on Barnesville Street in Thomaston. Open Saturdays 8 am to noon.
 
Michael H. Shuman, author of the book Going Local says, “Going local does not mean walling off the outside world. It means nurturing locally owned businesses which use local resources sustainably, employ local workers at decent wages and serve primarily local consumers. It means becoming more self-sufficient and less dependant on imports. Control moves from the boardrooms of distant corporations and back into the community where it belongs.”