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An undated photo of Daily Rise Coffee owners Jeff and Beth Furton.

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Money from the Harmons Local Supplier Development Grant Initiative was awarded to a handful of Utah businesses in March 2025.

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Harmons Neighborhood Grocer is continuing its decade-long tradition of boosting local business suppliers through the Harmons Local Supplier Development Grant Initiative, awarding a pair of Ogden-area businesses $5,000 each in support of their continued efforts to provide local goods.

Pettingill’s Fruit Farm in Willard; Daily Rise Coffee, which has retail locations in Ogden, Layton, Centerville and elsewhere throughout the state; and Cache Toffee Collection of Salt Lake City were announced as this year’s grant recipients last week.

“Local is one of our core values. We’re a local company and we’ve been local for over 90 years here in Utah,” said Lindee Nance, Harmons’ vice president of marketing. “So, it’s really important to us to do our part in helping to develop local businesses in our area. We love our small-business owners.”

Daily Rise Coffee owner Jeff Furton said that grant funds will be used to improve the business’ Layton-based roasting operations. He also hopes to expand Daily Rise’s community engagement efforts.

“We’re here for the community,” Furton told the Standard-Examiner. “We donate a ton of time to local organizations, whether it’s sitting on local boards with the Downtown Alliance or the GOAL Foundation or donating time to coach local basketball teams or going to events and just helping out, we are your community partner.”

A Harmons supplier for the last 10 years, Daily Rise began roasting coffee in 2012 after having launched its retail operations in Ogden eight years earlier. Now, Furton seeks to extend the wholesale operation’s reach in an effort to connect with more local businesses and a wider customer base.

“A lot of people know that we’re in the retail side of business, but not a lot of people know that we’re in the wholesale side of business,” he said. “That’s not just supplying Harmons, but that’s supplying a lot of local restaurants, hotels and resorts. … I hope to open up the door, to let people know we’re here to support them, whether it’s at their business or their place of work, their office, their home.”

Pettingill’s Fruit Farm, meanwhile, is one of Harmons’ legacy fruit and vegetable suppliers.

“They’ve been working with us for over 40 years,” Nance said. “It has been really cool to just see them grow over time with us. It has been a great partnership.”

Nance reports that Pettingill’s ownership has designs on using grant funds to develop new technologies for the farm’s irrigation process. According to a press release, that investment could accelerate harvest times by up to two weeks, allowing the farm to provide customers with fresh, local cantaloupe earlier in the season.

“That’s exciting and also kind of cool to see them putting the grant funds to use and building their business, which is really the intention of these development grants,” Nance added.

Harmons has awarded more than $150,000 in grant funds to local partners since the grant program’s inception.