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In 2013, Shaun Lee wanted to start a company that would allow people access to fresh healthy foods, in and around San Antonio.
Lee’s company, Truckin’ Tomato is a trailer-turned-farmers market, that delivers online ordered foods to homes in San Antonio on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Lee works with various local farms across the state to pick in season vegetables that are at their peak in freshness, allowing people to have fresh local foods.
But some areas of the city are hard to reach with limited funds to expand his business.
Working to expand his deliveries, Lee is using a crowdfunding campaign to help him reach new delivery sites in San Antonio and work on ways to address the needs of the larger community to learn about healthy eating and cooking habits.
In some delivery boxes, and online there are recipes on how to pair the vegetables with the local grass fed beef or organic chicken. Lee hopes that families will learn to cook together again through this convenient offering, he explained to The Rivard Report, stating that somehow the camaraderie of teaching your kids how to cook has kind of been lost.
Lee also hopes to use funds raised from his campaign to help kids in schools also access healthier foods by providing locally-sourced produce to various schools as well.
Businesses like Lee’s can be helped by crowdfunding and also have the potential to expand through healthy food financing initiatives or small loans that help expand or develop businesses that help bring access to healthy foods.
Many families in San Antonio live in areas that need more access to healthier foods in their schools and neighborhoods.
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By The Numbers
1
Supermarket
for every Latino neighborhood, compared to 3 for every non-Latino neighborhood
