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Here's How it Works

  1. We visit farms and pick up fresh food
  2. We box it up and put it on the bus
  3. You pick it up at one of our drop offs

Our (dirty) Roots.

We distribute seasonal, locally grown produce, meat, and dairy products to families in urban areas and educate people about food security from our retrofitted school (farm)bus! Our Farmbus is a mobile micro farmers market on wheels that can come to you OR you can visit our year-round indoor farmer's market!

New For Spring/Summer 2012

Farm to Family 2012 Spring/Summer USAs (Urban Supported Agriculture)  in Richmond and alternating weeks in NW DC  and Capitol Hill, DC on 4/25 which will run through the end of September. Shares include options for grass-fed meats, pastured dairy, produce/pantry, eggs, soy and bread. Yum! Contact us for info on pro-rated shares -- you can join at any time , also payment plans/pay by SNAP/EBT: 804-767-8570 or email: farmtofamilyinfo@gmail.com. Information for the DC bi-weekly drops in Capitol Hill and NW DC is available on the Mobile Markets page. Pickups will be Wednesdays, from 5-7. NW drop is at Maret School, starting 4/18 and Capitol Hill is at Eastern Market public parking next to Hines Middle School. Pickup for the Richmond USA is at the Farm to Family Market, 2817 Mechanicsville Turnpike, RVA 23223 starting 4/18. Pickups have changed to Wednesday, all day at the Richmond market, more information on the Richmond USA is available on the Mobile Markets page.        _________________________________________  

Change Comes to Dinner

Change Comes to Dinner is a new book about sustainable food by Katherine Gustafson which was released on May 8, 2012 by St. Martin's Press. Mark and Farm to Family are featured in  Chapter 1.  Katherine is a DC based journalist who visited with us in 2010 a few months after we had started Farm to Family, and traveled to the farms we work with, including Polyface Farm. Katherine also did a YouTube video of her time with us, which illustrates the first chapter of the book including the Polyface bee swatting incident.
Change Comes to Dinner is a fascinating exploration of America’s food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollan’s bestselling Omnivore’s Dilemma.
 Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets, organizations, businesses and institutions across America that are pushing for a more sustainable food system in America.
Gustafson introduces food visionaries like Mark, who turned a school bus into a locally-sourced mobile grocery store in Richmond, Virginia; Gayla Brockman, who organized a program to double the value of food stamps used at Kansas City, Missouri, farmers’ markets; Myles Lewis and Josh Hottenstein, who started a business growing vegetables in shipping containers using little water and no soil; and Tony Geraci, who claimed unused land to create the Great Kids Farm, where Baltimore City public school students learn how to grow food and help Geraci decide what to order from local farmers for breakfast and lunch at the city schools.
Change Comes to Dinner is a smart and engaging look into America’s food revolution. Check out what critics and other writers of the food revolution are saying about Change Comes to Dinner.  You can purchase Change Comes to Dinner at your favorite local bookseller, or online at Amazon.

Photos!

Photo gallery

We take lots of photos at our events and drop offs. Check out the gallery.