Friends! As we all work together to stay safe and healthy during the COVID-19 crisis, contractors and small businesses are experiencing intense financial and logistical stress as we balance the need to protect our community with our role as breadwinners with little financial safety net. Many of us are offering our community unique ways to help keep our businesses up and running through the crisis, so that we can do the right thing by socially distancing ourselves and still come out on the other side of this crisis with strength and resolve, ready to serve and support each other with love.
Here is a list (updated as often as possible) of small businesses and contractors offering special remote services, gift cards, and other opportunities for community support during this tricky time.
Farms
-Bluebird Meadows is offering delivery of fresh produce and flowers.
-Clear Black Flowers is taking orders for flower bouquet delivery via email: contact claire@clearblackflowers.com for more information!
-Spring Forth Farm will be offering weekly no-contact flower deliver for $15 to Hillsboro and Chapel Hill North of Franklin St.
-Ten Mothers Farm will be in touch about placing vegetable orders for delivery or on-farm pick-up once spring crops come in in the next month. Join their mailing list and they’ll keep you posted!
-Sugar Hill Produce, Strong Arm Baking Co. and Black and White Roasters are teaming up to offer home delivery of produce boxes, baked goods, fresh eggs, and coffee beans to Durham, Hillsboro, Wake Forrest, and Oxford.
Coffee, Tea, etc.
-Cocoa Cinnamon and Little Waves of Coffee are shipping Durham-roasted coffee nationwide (free shipping for order $35+) with the goal of continuing to support their living-wage staff, and also offer gift cards to purchase online!
-Homebucha has full t0-go menu and pickup schedule listed HERE. They also free delivery within 5 miles of Geer Street for orders of $25 or more.
-Jeddah’s Tea has e-gift cards available in their IG bio!
-One Eight Distilling in DC is closed for now, but you can still order their award-winning spirits for deliveryvia Ace Bev (with a special discount for DC-made products). Additionally, their distillery has become a grocery distribution point for restaurant workers in need.
Food
-COPA is offering gift certificates, take out, curbside pick up, and soon to come Doordash delivery for their Cuban food.
-The Durham Co-op Market will offer Senior + High Risk Shopping Hours, Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays from 10-11am beginning Friday 3/20: “If these groups are applicable to you, you are welcome to visit the Co-op on these days and times. We will have a limited number of customers and staff on the sales floor in order to offer less crowded shopping.”
-East Durham Bakeshop offers e-gift cards and folks can also pre-order for pick up (menu here) or place an order by calling the shop at 919-957-1090).
-Strong Arm Baking , Sugar Hill Produce, and Black and White Roasters are teaming up to offer home delivery of produce boxes, baked goods, fresh eggs, and coffee beans to Durham, Hillsboro, Wake Forrest, and Oxford.
-Number 1 Sons, DC-based purveyors of amazing pickled foods is starting home delivery this week for 15 miles of the 20002 zip code: “We've added local staples from farmers at markets that we know + love ( veggies, apples, sweet potatoes, grains/beans). Pray for us. We're gonna drive the pickle vans until the wheels fall off!”
-Rose’s Noodles, Dumplings and Sweets offers curbside pickup, delivery through Doordash, and is now adding in-house delivery within a 4-mile radius of their shop. They’re expanding their takeout and delivery menus to include ice cream sandwiches and other wonderful sweets! Stay tuned on Facebook or on Instagram for updates!
-Snack Service is offering home delivery of delicious foods by chef Phoebe Lawless— email phoebelawless@gmail.com.
-Short Winter Soups is offering soup via contactless home delivery to CH, Carrboro, Hillsborough and Durham on Saturdays starting this weekend, March 21. Info HERE.
-Zweli’s Kitchen is offering customized gift cards, curbside service and local delivery from “the only authentic Zimbabwean restaurant in the country”!
Services and Experiences
-Bountiful Backyards is “Out here working as much as we are able, but if folks want to buy a consultation for a later date, they totally can! bountifulbackyards@gmail.com is where we’re at”.
-Bright Voyage is offering complimentary virtual coaching sessions (2 per person).
-Cr2F has posted kid-friendly watercolor tutorials on her website!
-NC Tripping “is an independently run travel website. Our income is directly tired to the number of article read each day, so reading and enjoying our articles helps to support our business. If there’s an article you enjoy, it would also help if you shared it on your social media or followed our Facebook page.”
-Robertson Designs is open and available as a graphic designer/illustrator/typographer!
-Spruce Creative Studio is “offering 20-minute, $25 FaceTime calls for design advice then I’m donating all proceeds go to local charities. Perfect for folks that need to carve out temp home offices, rearrange living spaces for more indoor play, or just have problem areas they need quick advice on!”
Kids and Families
-Anna Carson DeWitt Photography (me!) is offering photo session gift certificates with a few extra perks and an included $10 food bank donation.
-Emerald Doulas are offering gift certificates online, $40 virtual postpartum processing and check in sessions, virtual lactation visits, and modified birth doula and virtual pregnancy support.
-The Liberation Station is offering Virtual Storytime on their IGTV Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. You can support their vital work via $Cashapp, Venmo, or Paypal at $liberationstation.
-Storytime Durham is posting wonderful daily songs and stories on Instagram and will be doing live interactive storytimes on Instagramlive Wednesdays and Fridays.
Wellness
-Dynamic Wellness with Larissa Parson is offering free online movement classes in her Facebook group and ZOOM packages for remote one-on-one private instruction!
-Emerald Doulas are offering gift certificates online, $40 virtual postpartum processing and check in sessions, virtual lactation visits, and modified birth doula and virtual pregnancy support.
-Full Flower Herbs is taking pre-orders for a fresh batch of elderberry syrup. Details HERE.
-Warrior Pose Yoga with Laura Phoenix is offering her amazing practice via live video classes. CLICK HERE for all the info.
Makers/Retail/Shopping
-Antlers and Astronauts is hipping out items as usual. In some cases, they’ll also drop off into your mailbox!
-Bright Black Candles is offering free pickup and shipping of their in the Triangle, and is still shipping throughout the US.
-Good Juju Herbal is offering pick up of their handmade soaps at our Cary shipping/production space with code “LOCALPICKUP” at checkout! And ALL online orders over 75 are free shipping with code “75FREESHIP”!
-Katie Berman Textiles is offering free shipping through the month of March (use code SPRINGFLING at checkout), and also has a sale on her website (no code needed).
-Megan Ilene’s website is open with more to be added soon!
-Nolan Provost has all Chambray Circle and Essential Scarves on sale for $20 plus shipping and they’re putting together a "Pay What You Can Sale" for other products later this week.
-The Regulator Bookshop is offering curbside pickup for prepaid online or phone orders! You can buy audio books from them through libro.fm .
-RIVTAK just launched brand new website with new merchandise and craft and sewing class offerings! She’ll be making food bank donations when she reaches her livelihood goal.