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Ice Creamery opens on Radial Highway

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We first met Lawrence Butler about this time last year. His mission is simple: bring local, farm to table food not only to the Benson and North O.

"We want to serve the community. We don't want to bring overpriced stuff here. We want to bring the healthy stuff which people can afford," he said.

It started with Daddy's Fresh Market, named his nine year old daughter. When you think about items in grocery stores, most stores have 600,000 items. At Daddy's, there's a couple hundred.

Here it's a lot of less, but each item has a small footprint. They get the majority of their products from 15 farms in a 100 mile radius.

"Where you food comes from, how its produced. That is very important nowadays."

A year later, butler still has a sweet taste for serving his community off North Radial Highway. He's open the Local Ice Creamery, or LIC. Part of that expansion including going back and forth between the two places, so you go to Daddy's and get your groceries. Then you walk through a corridor, to the local ice creamery so you can get your sweet treat."

And while sure, shakes and ice cream aren't as healthy as the organic whole foods next door. The idea, for Butler, is more so bringing farm to table, and a store for it.

"This area is a food dessert for one, for two organic is very needed in our community because just don't have enough of it," Butler said.