Look Who’s Buying & Selling Local Food

Here are just a couple of the many wholesale customers who ordered from local farmers, fishers, foragers, ranchers, and food makers through Market Mobile this week!

Gracie’s
194 Washington St
Providence, RI

We change our menu seasonally to to source the freshest ingredients and to reflect the flavors found at each time of the year. By respecting the seasonality of the harvest, we’re able to focus on each ingredient at its peak. We harvest many of these ingredients from our very own roof top garden at The Peerless Building in downcity Providence.

 

Stonehill College
Sodexo Food Service
320 Washington St
Easton, MA

Whether it’s fresh fruits and salads, delicious home-style entrées, or new creations by our chefs made for a variety of tastes, finding favorite foods on campus is easy… [Our] Sodexo Campus Dining Team is dedicated to sustainability… We work closely with local produce distributors to maximize the fruits and vegetables purchased from local farms. We also purchase from local dairies, and participate in farm to school initiatives. Tracking local purchases helps us to meet our Better Tomorrow Plan commitment of 20% local purchase by 2020.

 

What’s Fresh & Local This Week?

This week, we reminded our wholesale buyers about these great local products for sale — just a few among the extensive list of products offered by over 50 local growers and producers through Market Mobile:

	Radicchio — from Arcadian Fields Organic Farm in Hope Valley, RI Leonardo Radicchio Large heads, available in 4- or 8-lb sizes Certified Organic
	Adelisca Cow Spread — from Couët Farm & Fromagerie in Dudley, MA Big E winner! Fresh, tangy spread — a farmers market best-seller Made by woman-owned/operated, family company
	Moonstone Mix Mushrooms — from Moonstone Mushrooms in Charlestown, RI A mix of Blue, White, and Phoenix mushrooms Grown chemical-free Available by the 5 lb. box