Support Local During Going Local Week in Huntington!

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Show Up, Support, and Strengthen Local Businesses

HUNTINGTON, NY – Imagine a world where every time you grab a bite to eat, sign your child up for an activity, or even pick up a bouquet of flowers, you’re directly contributing to the heart and soul of your community. That’s the vision behind Going Local Week, a new initiative coming to Huntington Monday April 28th-Sunday May 4th.

What is Going Local Week?

Inspired by the overwhelming support Islip has shown for struggling businesses, Going Local Long Island and Chef Michael Landesberg of Jackson Hall American Bar & Grill have teamed up to create a movement that encourages residents to prioritize local businesses…Going Local Week.

Think of it like Restaurant Week—but better! This initiative includes restaurants, florists, dance studios, lawn care services, mechanics, and more, each offering exclusive deals to entice the community to shop, dine, and support local.

Going Local Week in Huntington

Going Local Week kicked off last month in Islip with over 90 local businesses offering up deals and specials to entice the community to come support them. This time, it’s Huntington’s turn.

Going Local Week in Huntington will take place from Monday April 28th through Sunday May 4th.

How Do I Sign My Local Business Up?

If you own a Local Business in Huntington and would like to offer a deal or special for Going Local Week, please click HERE! We offer a self serve form making it super easy to enter your business information and the deal or special you are offering!

How Can the Community Help?

We are counting on the community to help save our local businesses and there are a few ways you can help!

Please share this article: by sharing this article, we can spread awareness of an event that will help support and spread awareness of the local businesses in Huntington!

Please support the participating businesses during Going Local Week: check the list often to see which businesses can benefit you and try to support as many as you can! Maybe you need some lawn care done, or a dance class for your kid, or even want to try a new restaurant!

Please leave a positive review: if you support a local business, a positive review can go a really way!

Please tag and post about the Local business on social media: tagging and posting about local businesses helps them spread awareness organically!

Let’s Support & Save Our Local Businesses!

Don’t miss Going Local Week in Huntington happening Monday April 28th-May 4th! We anticipate to have over 75 businesses offering up deals and specials that week so make sure to check the list often! Click HERE to see the latest participants!

Together, we can make a difference. Let’s support the businesses that have supported us for years. Let’s keep our towns vibrant and full of character. Let’s make this a Movement, not just a Moment.

Melissa Farrell

Melissa Farrell has a mission to support local business by "Going Local." As a local business owner herself, she understands the struggles entrepreneurs face when owning a business and is always trying to find ways to shine a spotlight onto them. Melissa started Going Local Tours & Experiences back in 2020 during the pandemic in hopes to bring people back into local restaurants and shops. She created food tours in Huntington, NY that would stop at 3-4 local businesses and gave the guests the chance to meet the owner and hear the story behind the business. She soon realized how powerful storytelling is when connecting people to local businesses and created options with local store owners as well to bring them onto the tour to share their story. Melissa wanted to expand out of Huntington to be able to support even more local businesses and started creating luxury picnics where she would bring local to you! She would find local businesses in the area of the picnic set up and deliver it to you offering ways to support over 3 local businesses at each picnic. This wasn't enough. She wanted to find a better way to help spread awareness of local businesses and share their stories. Enter Evangeline Knell...a woman with over 30 years of broadcasting experience who somehow convinced Melissa to host a 3 day live stream from the Huntington Fall Festival. She had never been on camera before, but working alongside Evie to create the 3 shows, gave Melissa the confidence to take on the challenge. The 3 shows produced focused on the local vendors, the food trucks and the events that occurred at the festival and had a much larger reach than Melissa could ever of done on her own. They soon realized a business partnership was needed and combined their two businesses, Identity Digital which is a production company and Going Local Tours and Experiences to form Going Local Media. Evie and Melissa even formed their own distribution outlet by creating Going Local TV, a streaming platform like Netflix or YouTube, that is all about local businesses, events and organizations on Long Island. There are over 200 videos including their podcast series "Let's Get Local" "Long Island Business Minds" and "Local Business Spotlight" that help spread awareness of our local businesses and Long Island Professionals. They are always thinking up new ways to support local, including this site, Going Local Long Island is a directory of articles on how to Go Local on Long Island. We appreciate you taking the time to read this and for supporting local! Thank you!

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