Central Indiana’s First Food Hub Goes “LIVE!”

On Friday, May 31^st, 2013, ordering through Hoosier Harvest Market,

Indiana’s first food hub in Central Indiana to focus on Indiana grown products, will open to customers.

Hoosier Harvest Market connects Indiana food producers with Indiana consumers for locally grown food products. In a way many of our neighbors in surrounding states already enjoy, Hoosiers will now have the opportunity to access preferred foods locally and support their local producers directly.

At the outset, Hoosier Harvest Market is a virtual marketplace. Consumers can go to www.hoosierharvestmarket.com to learn about membership, place orders for locally produced foods directly with the producers, and discover their closest delivery location. Producers who want to sell their local products can also find more information and join through the site.

Complementary to your favorite farmer’s market, the Hoosier Harvest Market is a cooperative through which consumers can order their locally produced foods any time, from the comfort of home or office, with the click of a mouse.

How does a food hub work?

• Farmers/producers maintain their product availability and prices weekly in an online marketplace.
• Consumers shop and fill their market baskets with products from the farmers of their choice and pay online.
• Farmers deliver their products to an aggregation point for rapid sorting and packaging.
• Customized individual market baskets are delivered to a pickup point that the consumer has previously selected.

Based in Greenfield and delivering throughout central Indiana, Hoosier Harvest Market will have an official “ribbon cutting” at its first consumer delivery on Thursday, June 6^th, 2013.

For more information please visit the website or email the Market Manager Michael Morrow at Michael.Morrow@HoosierHarvestMarket.com, or the Purdue Extension Educator in Hancock County Roy Ballard at rballard@purdue.edu.