City Roots Farm is a 90-acre family-owned organic farm located in Columbia and is South Carolina's first urban farm established in 2009. Their microgreens are greenhouse-grown using best practices and standards for growing high-quality, certified organic microgreens year-round. It’s new carbon-neutral facility includes a 73,000 sq. ft. greenhouse, 2 acres of solar panels, geothermal heating systems, and a distribution facility.

Freshly Grown Farms is a small family-owned farm located in Columbia, SC. Since 2009, Freshly Grown Farms is proud to deliver all-natural, high in nutrient/vitamin content produce while conserving our natural resources. We began our journey with the mission to supply our local community with a premium good-for-you product with little to no impact on the environment.

GrowFood officially opened its doors in 2011 at a warehouse in downtown Charleston. GrowFood provides local farmers the sales, marketing, logistics, warehousing and distribution functions they need and that previously have been available only to large-scale industrial farms. The objective of GrowFood is to tap into the existing assets of small-scale agriculture to help create a stronger rural economy, spurring job creation, and building capacity in rural communities by connecting farm businesses to the thriving local food movement.

JJ’s Place is a Midlands-based bakery with some really incredible sourdough. They have been our neighbors at Soda City Market where we regularly enjoy the full variety of their offerings - but at Curiosity we use their sourdough bread for grilled cheeses and avocado toast as well as offering it as a bread option for other sandwiches.

Lowcountry Kettle owners, Andrew Trumbull and Clayton Wynne, were working together at The Obstinate Daughter restaurant on Sullivan’s Island when the idea first arose to start a potato chip company. Andrew, a FOH manager at the time, was attending a managers meeting when the topic of potato chips came up as a possible grab-and-go item to carry at the property’s gelateria below. Everyone at the table agreed that chips would make a great addition for those customers looking for a salty snack option. The table also agreed the chips should be locally sourced. However, after a few blank stares and empty google searches, it became very apparent that no such item currently existed in the Charleston or South Carolina market.

Their farm consists of about 350 acres of rolling pastures in Chester and York counties, S.C. The farm is ideal for livestock with two ponds and a creek running through it. There are three generations of Watsons that live on the farm and depend on the it for their livelihood. Because their lives depend on the farm one of their foremost concerns is sustainability – that is, ensuring that what the farm produces in the future will be no less than what it produces now.