Valley Green Feast Brings The Farmer’s Market To Your Door
The Western Massachusetts co-op wants to deliver to the Boston area.
~VALLEY GREEN FEAST FALL PRODUCE BOX PHOTO BY REBEKAH HANLON
Ever wonder what it would be like to have a farmer’s market in your front yard? Readily available, local, fresh produce waiting for you as soon as your open your door? Sounds perfect, doesn’t it? Valley Green Feast (VGF) thinks so and they’re committed to bridging the divide between the farm and your front door.
VGF, a Western Massachusetts based co-operative, delivers locally grown, organic products straight to your home. “We live in a great area full of agriculture but not everyone has access to it,” says Rebekah Hanlon, one of the four owners of Valley Green Feast. “Some people don’t have cars so they can’t get to farmers’ markets, and people are really busy and sometimes don’t have time to go to the grocery store and walk back with all those bags. That’s the gap we’re trying to fill.”
That’s why VGF is trying to expand their co-operative into the Boston area starting January 8th. But with less than a month and more than $10,000 still left to go on their Indiegogo campaign, they need the community’s help. “We do a lot of work to help connect our farmers and our producers and stand behind the work they’re doing,” Hanlon says. “And we want to get the community involved in that because it’s really all about community.”
~THE FOUR VGF WORKER/OWNERS: BECKY SZLOSEK, ALLY STERLING, REBEKAH HANLON, AND RUTH ANN. IMAGE PROVIDED.
So what makes VGF different from similar fresh delivery programs like Boston Organics? Besides VGF’s status as a worker owned co-operative, all VGF deliveries in Boston will be conducted completely by bicycle. VGF teamed up with another local co-operative, the Boston Collective Delivery bicycle courier service, to handle the deliveries to a number of Boston neighborhoods on Wednesdays.
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http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/blog/2013/12/16/valley-green-feast/
Labor and Delivery
Over the river and through the woods…no horse or sleigh, though there maybe a bell. Boston Collective Delivery, a South Boston based bicycle messenger collective, has teamed up with Valley Green Feast (Western MA) to deliver the goods. Both are owner-operated services (co-ops) that want to promote and provide fair-trade and organic goods to all by the most environmentally efficient means possible. South Bostonians are able to order an amount of produce, deposited to your front door, powered by pedal pushers. I’d call that fruits of labor.
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The children are our future and they are getting it right~ 
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I'm so excited for them, their customers(so lucky!), and what they are doing with their lives!
Yes, the winters will be tough and then comes Spring, Summer, and Fall! Their Labor of Love will benefit so many people. Not just for deliciouness convenience but for the gift of a healthy way of eating.. which is life itself. 
How unique is Valley Green Feast!
http://www.valleygreenfeast.com/
Thank you for posting this amazing enterprise of merging Valley Green Feast and the bicycle messenger collective in South Bostons.
From your link..
"Boston Collective Delivery will also benefit from the funds raised on Indiegogo. What they really need to buy, Hanlon says, is weather resistant traveling supplies. “We’re going to need a lot more than we have, for the winter and for the city,” she says. “We want to make sure that all the food is safe as its being delivered and that Boston Collective Delivery feels confident with their supplies.”
Awesome Vid outlying their goals for a Sustainable Food Movement with Bicycles, she!
I think these ladies and others like them are the wave of the future. There ideas are focused on a sustainable future. Beautiful.
Thank you so much for reading this and watching the video. I appreciate your support in what they are trying to build.
Cha~
cried for happy during the whole thing. Hits on some emotional level I didn't know was there. 
I wanted to donate a wee amount for symbolic support way far away on Kaua'i but I couldn't get it to "continue" past the second "continue" and didn't have time to find out what was amiss.
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I am so glad that it struck a cord with you. Yes it is amazing on so many levels. Some of the work that they do is to give those on snap benefits a 20% discount. Most farms and co-ops do not.
The children are indeed our future. They will show us the way.
Glad to see that this at least made it to the greatest page.
Cha~Our Future
possible but I like it even more! 
We got 15% discount for working at our Co-op in NY and our Volunteers got 15%(for working 5 hours a month). We always got 10% discount on a case price too so that could add up!
Glad it made it to the Greatest, she~