Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP)

271 Grant St. Buffalo, New York 14213 Phone (716) 882-5327 Fax (716) 882-5338

"Building the local community through food, urban farming and entrepreneurship"

 
   
:: Mobile Market Partners
MAPs Mobile Market brings together partners from different sectors of the food systems including farmers, youth food justice leaders, elders, schools and social service organizations. As public awareness grows we hope to attract other partners and expand to serve more sites around Buffalo.

Oles Family Farm and Promised Land CSA- (Alden, NY) - Daniel and Jane Oles have been supporters of the Mobile Market from the beginning.  They donate organic produce from their farm to the Mobile Market.

Singer Farms - (Appleton, NY) -Located along the shores of Lake Ontario, Singer Farms donate local fruit, at cost, to the Mobile Market. 

Dr. Samina Raja, Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo- Dr. Raja coordinates and oversees evaluation of this project.  Dr. Raja has worked with MAP programs for several years and co-authored the national award-winning report Food For Growth: a Community Food System Plan for Buffalo's West Side.

Santa Maria Towers (SMT)- A senior housing development on Buffalo's West Side.  Senior residents have limited access to grocery stores and transportation.  Growing Green has had a Mobile Market site at Santa Maria Towers since 2005. 

Jericho Road - Journey's End Refugee Services - A social services agency that works with low income and refugee residents of Buffalo.  The Mobile Market visits this site once a week and sells to West side residents and refugees from Southeast Asia and African Countries including Burma, The Sudan, Somalia.

Buffalo Grown Farm to School - MM collaborates with high schools within the Farm to School network- a coordinated initiative to increase assess to fresh, affordable food in schools.

Rich Products- Rich Products has generously donated a parking space in their secured lot to store the Mobile Market since its beginning in 2008. 

 

 

Mobile Market !

The Mobile Market is a healthy and local food distribution project of the Massachusetts Avenue Project and Growing Green Program.  The Mobile Market brings organic, locally-grown, affordable produce to low-income neighborhoods that have limited access to fresh food. The Mobile Market accepts EBT/Food Stamp benefits and runs from May through November of each year.

How it works:

  • Partners with local farmers and community partner sites
  • Travels to our partner sites on a weekly basis bringing  healthy foods to residents 
  • Sold approximately 3,000 pounds of local, organic foods to residents on the West and East side of Buffalo in 2010 

 

Addressing Healthy Food Access & Local Farms!

The Mobile Market helps brings local food to local folks.  It links Buffalo with a national movement supporting our local food systems and increasing food access from the ground up.

Contact Tyler, Mobile Market Coordinator, at 716-882-5327, ext. 6 for more information.