Healthy Local Food Brought to Your Workplace?

Cornucopia’s Take: As consumers become more aware of what is in their food, farmers are stepping up to meet the demand for local produce.

Farm to workplace: CSAs get hyper local
Bangor Daily News
by Kathleen Pierce, BDN Staff

PORTLAND, Maine — A truck pulls up to Maine Medical Center, and stethoscope-draped employees in white coats grab boxes. Contained within, a farm-fresh bounty of rhubarb, strawberries, peas and mushrooms awaits. This new workplace farm share from Lakeside Family Farm in Newport makes it easy for office workers across the state to eat local and healthy.

“They walk out office doors, go home and cook vegetables. It’s convenient for people that find home gardens too much trouble or are too busy to go to farmers markets and just want to walk out the door,” said Sarah Redfield, owner of Lakeside Family Farm, which launched the new weekly service in Portland on the last day in June.

Delivering fresh produce to employees where they work, from a hospital in Biddeford to The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor to The Maine Mall, and extending the bounty to food pantries, the concept closes the loop on healthy living and working.

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