The Common Market Texas
Food products supplier · Eastwood ·
Connects communities to local food from sustainable farms
Connects communities to local food from sustainable farms
"A Houston-based food-security nonprofit that sources fresh produce from sustainable family farms across central and southeast Texas to battle food insecurity. In the aftermath of Winter Storm Uri it partnered with a disaster-relief culinary nonprofit to deliver more than 10,000 boxes of fruits and vegetables—kale, sweet potatoes and winter citrus among them—to underserved neighborhoods in Houston, Galveston and the Ship Channel, with plans to expand to Austin and San Antonio. The organization uses a community-based distribution strategy (schools, churches and local partners have been key sites), prioritizes purchases from minority-owned farms to diversify supply chains, and has created temporary packing work for farm employees while fields are cleared and replanted; leadership expects distribution to rise to roughly 15,000–20,000 boxes as the program scales." - Brandon Summers-Miller
"This regional produce distributor is serving as a vendor partner in a pop-up grocery initiative, supplying locally grown foods that are purchased by a nonprofit and passed to participating restaurants to be sold affordably in underserved neighborhoods, helping restore sales channels for local producers." - Nadia Chaudhury
