Connecting Local Food to Consumers
Connecting Local Food to ConsumersI'm Lacy Gray with Washington Ag Today.
Growing Washington's The Local Choice Food Box is a community supported agriculture program that helps people who are concerned about eating local organic food support local farmers without having to go shopping around. The Local Food Box delivers to more than 1,200 customers all over Western Washington. Gabrielle Santerre, Program Manager for The Local Choice Food Box.
SANTERRE: We deliver all the way up in Whatcom County, Skagit County, Snohomish, all the way down to King County, and all the way down to Kent - our southern most delivery spot. We offer four different sizes. A single family household may just want a few things each week, and then we have all the way up to our family size share which is 15 separate items. So we offer a lot of customization for folks based on what they need.
Their workplace delivery option is becoming more and more popular.
SANTERRE: You pick up your box at one of our site-hosts, or we do workplace delivery. As long as you have four other co-workers who are interested we can get workplace delivery set up with no extra fee. That works for our members because the box arrives right to their work and they just throw it in the car, go home, and eat a local meal.
The Local Choice Food Box has a twenty week main delivery season, which usually starts in June and goes through the end of October.
SANTERRE: We take new members from March until June 1. We have a wait list for folks who have heard about us after our registration deadline and it's real easy to sign up for - you just go to our website and click signup for the wait list, and then will contact you as soon as we have space.
For more information visit growingwashington.org.
That's Washington Ag Today.
I'm Lacy Gray on the Ag Information Network.