diff --git a/docs/developing-locally.rst b/docs/developing-locally.rst
index 2b7806ce..264fd849 100644
--- a/docs/developing-locally.rst
+++ b/docs/developing-locally.rst
@@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ when developing locally. If you have the appropriate setup on your local machine
 in ``config/settings/local.py``::
 
     CELERY_TASK_ALWAYS_EAGER = False
+    
+To run Celery locally, make sure redis-server is installed (instructions are available at https://redis.io/topics/quickstart), run the server in one terminal with `redis-server`, and then start celery in another terminal with the following command::
+    
+    celery -A config.celery_app worker --loglevel=info
 
 
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