Market Mobile
Farm-to-Biz online ordering.
Fresh from 50 family farms and
local producers across RI, MA and CT.
Market Mobile Works for Farmers
Market Mobile is a cooperative delivery system designed around the needs of our family farmers. The online ordering software pools together sales, delivery and invoicing so that our farmers and producers can focus on growing the tastiest food in town.

The result is that a group of diversified small and mid-sized farms can supply restaurants, schools, grocers and institutions in Rhode Island and eastern Massachusetts.
Local 365 Initiative
Farm Fresh RI is rebuilding a year-round food system driven by the needs of Rhode Island farmers and eaters. Our Local 365 goals:
  • Expand local farm production.
  • Increase efficiency of processing, distribution, sales.
  • Increase number of outlets to buy/eat local foods.
  • Foster and support new class of businesses built around local foods.
How do we get to Local 365?
Foods
Results: Market Mobile by the Numbers
Every week, we work with two dozen family farms in Rhode Island and Massachusetts to get fresh produce, dairy and meat to 80 or so restaurants, grocers, schools and hospitals around Providence, Newport and Boston.

Farms
This Thursday
$18,240 of fresh food
from 37 local producers
to 82 customers
This year
$404,051 of fresh food
from 49 local producers
to 180 customers
Vs. YTD 2011
$322,288 of fresh food
from 40 local producers
to 132 customers


Local food is
  • community economic development
  • manufacturing
  • jobs
  • public health
  • open space preservation
  • the recipe for vibrant cities and countryside

And it tastes better too.


35 LOCAL JOBS CREATED
Market Mobile sales add 30 on-farm & 5 off-farm full time equivalent jobs to the local economy at the average Rhode Islander's income*

$1,050,533
economic impact
so far This Year
Because our farmers live and work here, local food dollars get recycled in the local economy, with an estimated impact of 2.6x the original food sales*

Affordable Health Care Foods
In 2011, our customers consumed
41,041 tomatoes (10.26 tons),
25,810 ears of corn (14.20 tons),
123,573 carrots (12.36 tons),
161,438 apples (26.91 tons).
Fresher tastes better, which means people eat more. Market Mobile helps move more fresh produce from local farms to local tables.


What Farms are Selling
Foods


Fresh Produce Sold in 2012
  1. Potatoes - $19,798
  2. Salad greens - $16,105
  3. Apples - $12,679
  4. Parsnips - $9,300
  5. Microgreens - $8,699
  6. Sweet potatoes - $6,099
  7. Frozen Fruit - $5,454
  8. Carrots - $5,396
  9. Winter squash - $4,807
  10. Asparagus - $4,467
  11. Lettuce - $4,432
  12. Fiddleheads - $4,091
  13. Turnips - $3,994
  14. Grapefruit - $3,966
  15. Radishes - $3,748
  16. Onions - $3,724