Healthy Harvest Mobile Market

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The Community Health Strategies and Innovation team at University Health created the Healthy Harvest Mobile Market program to mitigate the number of community members residing in food deserts. The goal is to provide the community with healthy and fresh food, as well as nutrition education, healthy recipes, and infographics.

The mobile market goes to local ZIP codes that are considered food deserts to serve the community members in that area. The program works closely with community members to provide health education and high-quality produce.

The program collaborates with multiple community stakeholders, including faith-based organizations, schools, and community clinics. Through these partnerships, the Healthy Harvest Mobile Market ensures that community members understand the important relationship between diet and health.

The mobile market delivers fresh produce and nutrition education to many who otherwise would not have access. Specifically, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the market delivered enough food to nourish more than 100,000 people. Since 2021, the mobile market has served around 159,000 people.