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We've been sitting on some news for the last few weeks and we're thrilled to finally spill the beans.... or pop the popcorn!!  Free Day Popcorn is honored (and surprised and excited!) to be featured on the podcast The Happy Hour with Jamie Ivey as part of their 2016 Holiday Gift Guide!! On this special podcast episode, Jamie Ivey and her guest co-host Rachel Hollis (The Chic Site) showcase 13 amazing companies/products that you can feel good about purchasing Christmas gifts from this year. These are a collection of small (women owned) businesses (like us!), businesses that are ethically sourced...

One year ago - today! - Free Day Popcorn Company, LLC "popped" onto the scene and became an official business! Thank you to each and every one of our customers, backers, family and friends for making this first year in business a dream come true. So pop some Free Day Popcorn and celebrate along with us! So many good things in store for year #2!       Now, the announcement we've been waiting to make since we sold out last fall....   Popping Ears are in stock!   Visit http://www.freedaypopcorn.com/shop to order yours today! We have yellow, white and...

It's ALMOST here! #harvest2016, #fall2016 or as "Kernel Free Day" says #themostwonderfultimeoftheyear! We're literally days or even hours away. Popping Ears We planted our popcorn babies in May... and now at the end of September and the cusp of October, our popcorn babies are all grown up and almost ready for harvest.   We've done some preliminary handpicking of Popping Ears to see how this year's crop is looking. Early pickings reveal some pretty ears. We're pretty excited about how they turned out.    In addition to the yellow Popping Ears (far left in the picture) we had last year,...

It's been about a week since our Kickstarter campaign ended. We may have fallen short of our funding goal, but we're so grateful to use it as a learning experience and a chance to connect with 34 cool people in the process. THANK YOU, for your support.   That said, we're still full steam ahead to bring Popping Ears to market this fall. We're counting down the days til we can pick popcorn (roughly 14 to go!)!   After harvest, just give us a week or two to sort and start packaging them. Popping Ears should be available in our...

If you've followed our Kickstarter updates and blog, you may remember a couple weeks ago we were interviewed by my hometown newspaper The Altoona Mirror. The article ran this past Monday. If this is where you first heard about Free Day Popcorn, welcome! It's been fun to "meet" so many people from central PA this week and love that we can share our love of popcorn with family and friends.    Missed the article, read it here: http://www.altoonamirror.com/page/content.detail/id/644074/Popping-up-success.html?nav=5109