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We’re Kate and Julia the co-founders of LOCALITY! Just a couple of girls sharing our love and passion for all the fantastic things the Okanagan Valley has to offer! We launched our local Okanagan based subscription box service in February 2018 and have had a great response from Okanagan lovers across Canada.
Here is a little background on us: We are both born and raised Okanagan girls. Julia was born and raised in Vernon and I (Kate) was born and raised in Kelowna. Both of us lived away from the Okanagan for many years, we connected in Vancouver thanks to our husbands who knew one another through their work. We ended up living across the street from each other in Port Moody and then both made our way back home to the Okanagan within months of one another!
One late summer day in August 2017 we were hanging out on Kalamalka Lake talking about ideas, our love for the Okanagan, life with young kids and what our next steps were in terms of our careers when we decided to join forces and start LOCALITY!!
Our goal with LOCALITY was ultimately to play a part in the ‘SHOP LOCAL’ movement by providing our members with easy access to beautiful, artisanally made Okanagan based products and brands. Our dream is to capture a feeling of pride, love and personal connection to an area that has so much to offer in terms of lifestyle.
Whether you live in Toronto, Vancouver, the Okanagan Valley or anywhere in between; you now have access to the flavours of the Okanagan all year round with our seasonally curated subscription box. Our boxes are $84.99 per quarter and there are products worth anywhere from $120-150 inside the box. You can expect to find products such as bath and body, health and wellness, non-perishable food items and accessories. Our boxes are curated by us and delivered to our members every season! We are also teaming up with wineries and other local business to offer free tastings discounts and prize packs for our members.
We recently launched and sold out of our Summer Launch Box. We sent out boxes all over the Okanagan Valley and across Canada as far as Ottawa and Toronto. We had a great response from members and some super exciting posts from influencers like Jillian Harris! This was obviously great exposure for us and for the artisans and partners featured in the box. We have opened up more spots for our Fall Box so sign up quick so you don’t miss out on this awesome local surprise!!
We are super excited about our Fall Box and have some really cool exclusive products that you will only be able to get if you order now! Sales for the Fall Box close at the end of July or as soon as we sell out. Follow us on Instagram to get all the updates @iamlocality and check out our website www.iamlocality.com to see all the products featured in our Summer Launch Box and to order the Fall Box! Thanks for your support!
Xo
Julia & Kate
What a fantastic idea – a locale-based subscription box!! Very excited for you!
What a fun idea! I love getting subscription boxes in the mail, and the variety this one seems to offer would be really exciting to unbox!
This is a great idea! The boxes would make wonderful gifts for loved ones who are far from home. One of our daughters lives in California, while we live in Ohio–I wish there was an easy way like this to send her local products.
What a thoughtful product! I’d love to get on the list for when they start shipping to the U.S. Great work, ladies!
Interesting post! Keep on sharing the good things!
I think my wife would love your blog! I will share it with her 🙂
I love the Okanagan Valley! What an inspiring and refreshing idea, I can’t wait to check out the box online!
This has to be one of the neatest subscription boxes! I love the fact that it supports local shops 🙂
I really wish we had something like this here on the central coast of California! Such a wonderful idea!
The box set looks very nice and seems a very good product
This box looks very exciting. Is it possible to deliver to India?
I admire your courage to participate in this venture. It must take great fortitude to embark on such a project.Ordering your products and marketing them would scare me to death as I know I am not a good sales person. I wish you continued success. .
omg i love this i wish i lived in canada so i could use it!
I really like your story, how you met and started the business. I like the idea of local produce and wish you success.
What a fun entrepreneurial thing to do! Best of luck on your box launches!
What an inspiring story.I love subscription boxes and yours seem perfect to.support local.
I always admire people, especially women who launch their own business from an idea that stemmed out of a collaboration. What a great way to introduce to the rest of the world what Okanagan is. I personally didn’t know where that was until I dug deeper!
I like the picture of your box and I am so happy that this is being sold in Toronto! Every time I am interested in a subscription box — they have a U.S residents only warning and that’s so unfortunate!
I know what you mean Pavan, it is so exciting to have this available in Canada!
this is so neat! what an awesome idea – and so cute!
What a great story these dynamic duos make! I love the collaboration and the spirit they bring. Purchasing local will
Support community and these two budding stars!
Congrats on launching your new business and all the best of luck!
Boxes look great! I’m not that familiar with Canada but sounds like a great concept!
I absolutely love this!! This is great! I hope you branch out and allow us US people to sign on in the future.
Are these only in Canada?
For now, the boxes are shipped Canada wide Vaishali ,but I am sure these gals will have a successful and expanding business, sign up for their email to stay in the loop!
What a wonderful way to support local artisans in your community! I love it! Glad that the sales have gone well so far; I think you’ll have much success going forward.
One of my favorite things is seeing women get out there and grab the bull by the horns. Wonderful story and hopefully you;ll be able to expand outside of Canada sooner rather than later because I’d love to give this box a go.
Great post! x
Michelle
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Love the boxes and its contents! I will check them out
Such gorgeous things. I really think subscription boxes are just going to grow and grow and personally I love to support local.
I’m all about supporting local business. If I lived closer I’d give it a try but sadly I’m from the other end of the world >.<
More power to both of you!
What a great idea to showcase local goods! Good luck with your venture.
What a fun box, I can see why they sold out. I will have to check out the fall box, I guess getting early would be a good suggestion LOL
Hey Jen!! Thanks for the love. We still have a few spots left for the Fall Box so get your hands on one quick if you are interested. Thanks for the comment babe!
This is AWESOME! The subscription box for feminists slash people who believe in supporting each other vs. competing with each other. I love this so much.
Thanks Jessica!! We are stoked to be supporting other local businesses in our region and some rad boss babes as well! XO
What a great story! I wish you all the success!
Thank you so much Cherryl! We appreciate the comment. 🙂
wah! this is such a clever idea isn’t it ? I love it though so handy and beautiful too 🙂
Thanks so much for the nice post Anna!
It’s amazing to see more and more subscription boxes become available in Canada! I always love supporting female entrepreneurs!
Hey Lesley! Totally agree, its nice for Canadians to have some cool local boxes showing up at our doors! Thanks for your shout out girl!!
Congrats on your success and may it continue!
Thank you so much!
What a great box to subscribe too! I love the idea and I love supporting other women! And the price is so reasonable for all those goodies … I’m going to go learn more.
Hey Des!! Awesome! This is the perfect way to support local, such a great treat for yourself or a nice gift for someone else! Thanks for checking us out, we hope you like what you see! XOXO. PS: There is still a short time left to get the Fall Box.
What a great box! and I love Jillian Harris, that is so awesome! Keep it up lades!
Thanks girl! We love Jillian too:) She does a lot of great things for her community. Thanks for the love on the LOCALITY Box. XO
This looks like an incredible way to connect with the local goodies! I wish I lived closer to give it a try!
Hi Jenn!! Thanks a lot! If you live in Canada we are shipping Canada wide! 🙂
This is a very good idea! I would like to order
HI FIbi! Thank you so much! You can absolutely order, just head to our website http://www.iamlocality.com and click GET THE BOX. There is still a little time left to get the Fall Box. XO
I’m pretty sure that you will be succesful entrepreneur I like the coconut lime 🙂
The coconut lime body butter is so amazing! Good choice:) Thank you for the post! XO
What a cool idea! I hope they can spread this into other areas too, I’m a huge proponent of #shopping local
Hi Carolyn! Thanks for the feedback:) This is definitely something we have discussed and we have lots of ideas and plans in the works. For now we are shipping our LOCALITY boxes across Canada! Thanks again for your comment. XO
Aaawww this almost reminded me of an episode of “Easy”, where two young, cool women start their soap production-company. I really like the idea of local produce, and wish you success!
Awww you are sweet, thanks babe!
Love supporting entrepreneurs. This is a wonderful idea. The selection of products looks to die for. I have a feeling this one will be sold out as well 🙂
Hi Tachira! Glad you like what you are seeing, there is still time to sign up for Fall! we ship Canada wide. XO
Is there a sub box like this where you live Tachi?
Kate and Julia, it’s nice to meet you and I love your story. It almost seems as if you were destined to meet and start Locality. Wishing you much success!
Thanks a lot Shawn! So true:)
Love the boxes! If I lived in Canada I’d use this sub box!!
Thanks so much Anisa! Hopefully soon we will be shipping outside of Canada! Xo
You would definitely want this one if you lived here. I will let you know when they add delivery to the US!