Mobile Oasis Delivers Fresh Produce to Food Deserts

Fresh fruits and vegetables are now more accessible to people living in some of Greensboro's food deserts. 

Food deserts are urban neighborhoods and rural towns where people don't have easy access to fresh, healthy and affordable food, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Guilford County Health and Human Services is collaborating with several Greensboro and state groups to sponsor the Mobile Oasis Farmers Market in an aim to give people in food deserts better options.

 

Nutritionist Janet Mayer says the trailer will be filled with seasonal items. 

 

“We are bringing affordable, fresh produce virtually, if not to their door, certainly within walking distance of where they live," says Mayer. "That is not the situation they typically have to be able to buy things like this.”

 

All of the food is grown by local farmers. Mayer says the truck operates every Wednesday for the next two months. First it will stop in front of the Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services at 1203 Maple Street from 10:00 a.m. until Noon. Then it will go to the Warnersville Recreation Center at 601 Doak Street from 2:30 p.m. until 4:20 p.m. Cash or SNAP EBT cards are accepted.

 

Every week will feature a different food theme, recipes and cooking demonstrations. The Mobile Oasis Farmers Market will run until November 26.