About Fresh Producers

Fresh Producers are students motivated to eat better and gain business skills. They manage a not-for-profit corporation that makes fresh, high quality fruits and veggies easily available. Youth sales reps receive rewards and opportunities for employment as they promote nutrition in their neighborhoods. Additional monies will be deposited in a fund that offers grants and scholarships supporting the well-being of children and youth.

• Support youth as they earn and learn
• Help prevent obesity and diabetes
• Enable delivery to elderly and disabled
• Increase access to fresh food in underserved areas
• Affordable, delicious, primarily local and organic
• Recipes from some of the area’s finest chefs
• Money-saving coupons and other items of value
• Easy to get weekly at local distribution sites.

The Boys and Girls Clubs
Community Centers
Houses of Worship
Schools

Mission:

Fresh Producers increases access to high quality produce, provides incentives to motivate healthful eating, and improves well-being for everyone from school-children to seniors.

Benefits of Fresh Producers

Youth

• Training includes nutrition education and business skills
• Motivation to eat more healthfully
• Learn to conduct community health surveys
• Sales, communication and leadership skills developed
• Rewards and prizes for younger students (ages 7-14)
• Commissions and salaries for older students (15+)
• Management and Director experience for older students
• Participation points and community service hours for work in community gardens, farmer’s markets, etc.
• High School Graduates receive college/career training grants

Neighborhoods

• Sites can create fundraising opportunities
• Can use debit, credit, EBT (food stamp) cards, as well as on-line
• Training in produce handling and repacking
• Local, organic, sustainable produce to the greatest degree
• Nutrition information, recipes, coupons included in parcel
• Deliver to elderly, disabled, lower mobility neighbors, also creates regular social contact with younger folks

Growers & Distributors

• Exponentially increases market through access to underserved neighborhoods and expanded incentive to eat produce
• Business and marketing opportunities
• Creating lifelong healthy eating habits

Long-term goals seek to have our youth:

• develop a strong work ethic
• take responsibility for their own health
• learn skills for success, how to bring ideas into being
• know that it pays to stay in school
• become a force pushing the markets toward health