Fresh fruit and vegetables

Our staff members show endless creativity and generosity in supporting the people who live in the Bowdoin/Geneva neighborhood of our affiliated Bowdoin Street Health Center. A note from Cathy Wirth, Healthy Food Access Coordinator:

The BSHC farmers’ market will be running from July 8^th to October 28^th this year. In order to attract new farmers to the market and to support our efforts to make produce available to more low-income families in the neighborhood, we are piloting a Community Supported Market program. We will be selling Community Supported Market Shares to BIDMC staff in [two of our buildings]. For $250 ($25/week for 10 weeks), we will deliver a box of produce from one of our farmers’ market growers to staff in those buildings every Friday. Included in the share price is a donation to help cover the cost of subsidized shares to be offered to low-income families near the health center. We are keeping the program very small this year and just targeting [those two sites] for logistical reasons, but if the program is successful we are interested in opening it up to a larger segment of BIDMC staff in coming years.