Farm to Family Mobile Farmers' Market Keeps Good Food Rolling in Northeast Florida

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farm2family — The Farm to Family mobile farmers’ market began rolling out fresh produce to Florida’s food deserts this summer. Source: https://www.facebook.com/FarmtoFamilyFlorida/photos/pb.1393579250902547.-2207520000.1408571746./1446496502277488/?type=3&theater

Another mobile food truck is brining farm-fresh produce to the streets—this time in northeastern Florida.

Farm to Family, a new mobile market that launched in summer 2014, is the latest outreach program of Pie in the Sky, a non-profit operating food programs for families in the small town of Hastings, FL.

The market makes around 20 stops a week in St. Johns County and accepts food assistance benefits, like SNAP. Latinos make up around 15% of SNAP participants.

Farm to Family’s website lists its scheduled stops as well as the weekly produce offerings. The truck also stocks reasonably-priced non-local items, such as bananas. Farm to Family also posts recipes on its website for things like carrot cake oatmeal, easy pickles and roasted veggie tacos.

When residents come to the mobile market, they find recipe cards that feature the items for sale in a given week. Farm to Family also has future plans for a nutritionist who can show how to make simple, healthy, low-cost recipes and for a clinic component were folks can get diabetes screenings. Other future plans might include participation in a study showing how access to fresh produce through the mobile market can improve community members’ health, according to an article in Highlands Today.

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