Fresh Producers Are:
Young people who promote nutrition and help bring fresh food to their homes and neighborhoods. Opportunities for prizes, jobs and scholarships demonstrate how to create wealth from health, inspiring youth to eat better, gain business skills and stay in school.
Fresh Producers Make Your Life Easier!
- High-quality, low price produce
- Healthy prepared items
- Pick up at local delivery site
- No extra gas/transportation $
- Food stamps, debit/credit cards
- Improve your health and energy
- Reduce disease and healthcare cost
- Support youth as they earn and learn
- Raise money for a cause you care about
- Show young people it pays to stay in school
And You Make Others Lives Better!
With every purchase you:
- Support youth as they earn and learn
- Increase access to fresh food in underserved areas
- Help prevent obesity and diabetes
- Enable delivery to the elderly and disabled
- Build scholarship equity for participants
10 % of all sales revenue invested into a scholarship account
The Fresh Producers Trust
making career/college available to every young person
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