Antioch City Manager Steve Duran reported that the City of Antioch now has an agreement in place with The Mobile Farmers Market, known as Freshest Cargo, for a “pilot” program to bring fresh fruits and vegetables via mobile truck to our downtown and water park sites.
In inaugural event was last week. Freshest Cargo helps promote healthy living by providing organic and locally grown fruits and vegetables to an area that may normally not have access.
The mobile truck is a great easy convenient way to get your organic local vegetables and fruits.
Antioch now has three stops on Tuesdays:
- 9:30 – 10:10 am: Antioch Senior Center located at West 2nd Street Antioch.
- 11:00 – 12:30 pm: The Commons at Dallas Ranch at 4751 Dallas Ranch Road
- 2:00 – 3:00 pm: Prewett Family Water Park at 4701 Lone Tree Way
About Freshest Cargo Mobile Farmers Market
Fresh Approach creates long-term change in local food systems by connecting California communities with healthy food from California farmers and expanding knowledge about food and nutrition.
We envision healthy communities where all people have access to fresh, healthy food from California farmers.
Founded in 2008, Fresh Approach works in close partnership with the Pacific Coast Farmers’ Market Association to connect the healthy food and local food movements in the San Francisco Bay Area through educational outreach and programs.
- VeggieRx provides vouchers for fresh fruits and vegetables to families in obesity prevention and diabetes management programs while monitoring their progress toward improved health.
- Market Match provides incentives to CalFresh customers at Bay Area farmers’ markets to allow them to stretch their food dollars while improving their diets.
- Healthy Food/Healthy You provides nutrition classes at social service sites and in partnership with community-based organizations to arm consumers with the knowledge they need to make better food choices.
- Fresh Education provides orientations and trainings on sustainable agriculture issues through farmers’ market tours and school-based programming.
- Food Within Reach is a new program which will assist community-based organizations in the San Jose area to take advantage of the city’s new zoning regulations to increase access to fresh, locally-grown fruits and vegetables in areas of high need.
- All of these programs are supported by a Volunteer Program and an Internship Program which engages the energy of committed allies throughout the Bay Area
For more information, visit them at www.freshapproach.org
2 comments
Oakley should do this once a week either at Eagle City or on Main Street. Oakley is failing its residents. Antioch is doing something right for a change.
We have \had many farmer’s markets in Antioch over the past 50 years. Unfortunately they are not consistently supported. Even the one at Kaiser starts out very nice and in a few weeks is down to nearly nothing because no one goes.
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