MOBILE FOOD MARKET
What Does the Mobile Market Do?
It's a grocery store on wheels, but better! The Mobile Market stocks fresh, high-quality, healthy items like fruits, vegetables, and dry goods and makes them available in rural communities without grocery store access. All of this on a choose-your-own price system to accommodate different budget needs!
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Wyoming is known for its beautiful frontier, open lands, and long winters. This reality brings fewer stores within a convenient and feasible distance, a shorter growing season, road closures due to weather resulting in limited deliveries of produce and food shortages. Feeding Laramie Valley’s Mobile Market aims to increase healthy and fresh food access for all members of the Albany County community through traveling sales. Our Mobile Market operates sometimes out of a charming, retired Bluebird school bus and sometimes farmers market-style, which makes it possible for us to travel to our locations in Centennial, Woods Landing, Rock River, West Laramie, and Ivinson Memorial Hospital. Each week our bus is filled with a selection of staple foods like fresh produce, protein options, and bulk dry goods. With the help of our team, volunteers, our community, and our partnership with Big Hollow Food Co-Op, the renovation of the bus is complete and we are now fulfilling our plan to sell affordable healthy food around the county.
This social venture is designed as a retail sales outlet, engaging us in economic, jobs, and career development to help alleviate poverty and health and wellness disparities in our community. Each purchase will help support Feeding Laramie Valley's programs that are creating sustainable local food production and increased healthy food access for everyone in Albany County, including through programs like Shares and Kids Out to Lunch.
The Mobile Market Mission
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What We've Accomplished So Far....
After two years of retro-fitting our bus, we have finished with the renovation stage of the project and have moved to launching our traveling sales throughout Albany County. Our renovations included painting the interior and exterior, reupholstering seats, installing new flooring, fixing windows, overcoming mechanical challenges, building a shelving and plumbing system, as well as outfitting the space with refrigerators, a hand sink, and a bulk food dispenser. All of this hard work has turned our old school bus into a beautiful grocery store on wheels!
We currently sell fresh fruits and veggies like apples, pears, berries, onions, potatoes, peppers, leafy greens, and many other options on a choose-your-own price system. In addition, we sell dry goods like flour, rolled oats, rice, and spices, and we are soon to sell dairy products, meats, and other protein options. We've also begun to connect with gardeners, homesteaders, and entrepreneurs as we expand our relationships with local vendors to offer products for sale at the Feeding Laramie Valley Mobile Market.
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The Mobile Shopping Experience
Route and Schedule
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Choose-Your-Own Price
Featuring three different price options to meet your budget needs
What's Available
Selection changes weekly, but we will always have the following basic types of item!
SNAP Accepted!
Use your benefits for any SNAP-eligible items just like you would at the grocery store
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Let Us Know What You Think!
Have you visited the Mobile Market, or do you plan to visit soon? We’d love to hear from you! Click above to take our 2 minute survey to give us anonymous feedback about your experience on the Mobile Market about your ideas for what you’d like to see!
Want to get involved or get more information?
Are you excited about this project as much as we are? Do you have suggestions about locations, products, or schedules? Please reach out to us! Community input in every stage of our programs is always welcome and greatly encouraged.
We invite you to get in touch with us. If you would like more information or would like to get involved in this new social venture, email us at mobilemarket@feedinglaramievalley.org or call our office at: 307.223.4399.
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