RWJBarnabas Health

"RWJBarnabas Health, the largest academic health care system in New Jersey is partnering with The Common Market to address food insecurity in 18 towns across the state from Jersey City to Toms River.

In 2021, RWJBH partnered with The Common Market to deliver Farm-Fresh Boxes of local produce, freshly baked bread, eggs, and yogurt, to RWJBH Hospitals across the state, which interns delivered to local food distribution sites, such as churches and food pantries."

Civil Eats

“We need to be able to balance the efficiency with resiliency,” Vilsack said during a panel discussion that featured regional food hub innovator and founder of The Common Market Haile Johnston, California organic farmer Javier Zamora, and Georgia physician-nutritionist Sharica Brookins."

USDA

"What else could heal our physical health, our economies, our ecologies and bridge urban and social and rural divides...What else can bring people together in challenging times better than food," Haile Johnston of The Common Market shared.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

"That is the motivation behind a pilot launched in March in Bridgeton and Camden by The Common Market, a nonprofit local distributor, to infuse locally grown fruit and vegetables and products into the lunch menu. The Common Market hopes to support diverse farmers in the state."

Forbes

"The Common Market is an exciting supply chain innovation that is transforming the role of wholesalers. A nonprofit that builds regional and regenerative food supply chains throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Texas (and soon the Great Lakes), The Common Market partners with farmers to handle distribution of their harvests, ensuring that customers get some of the best and freshest foods."

CBS Philly

“How do we ensure that students are accessing the highest quality food in schools and how can we make it really easy to do that while simultaneously supporting growers that are in the students’ communities?” said Rachel Terry, national partnership director with The Common Market.

Illinois Farm Bureau

Since 2008, The Common Market has distributed local foods from over 300 sustainable family farms and producers to 1,800+ schools, hospitals, eldercare facilities, workplaces, and community organizations. In that time, they estimate 58 million meals have been served with local sourced products. The Common Market has found community drive success across the country individualizing their programs to the communities they are working in, including the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Texas, and now the Great Lakes region. As part of the 2022 #LiveLocal: Local Food and Farmers Market Conference, hear from co-founder Haile Johnston and Great Lakes Director Eliana Pinilla on how they are developing programs in the region to build on the collaborative food economy of Illinois.

Civil Eats

In the U.S, for example, the Common Market launched its Farm-Fresh Box initiative, which ultimately tackled two challenges: meeting the immediate food needs of vulnerable families while at the same time strengthening shorter and more local supply chains.

Bon Appétit Management Company

These businesses come in all shapes and sizes. The Common Market, a local-food aggregator started by Tatiana Garcia-Granados and her husband Haile Johnston in Pennsylvania, now operates in Georgia, Texas, and throughout the Northeast, connecting food purveyors and institutions like Bon Appétit at the University of Pennsylvania and Emory University to a small army of local farmers.

"Meridian School’s Food Services Department has more than doubled local food purchases this year, thanks to a partnership through the Texas Dept. of Agriculture with the Sustainable Food Center and The Common Market. What is local? For Meridian, that means any Texas products."

The Common Market in the News

RWJBarnabas Health Tackles Increases in Food Insecurity Following the Pandemic

Tom Vilsack on How the USDA Can Transform the Food System

Vilsack to Deliver Address Announcing USDA Framework to Transform the Food System

How two N.J. school districts are trying to serve healthier lunches with locally grown produce

How Good Food Enterprises Are Thriving In The Covid-19 Era

School Lunches Get Healthy Makeover In Camden Through Partnership With Local Farmers

"Creating Community Through Food Hubs"

Op-Ed: There Is Ample Evidence That Agroecology Can Transform the Food System

Bon appétit celebrates women-owned farm to fork vendors

Meridian Doubles Local Food Purchases

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