FreshFix, a Buffalo fresh food delivery service that brings food from regional farms to area homes and offices every week, got a financial fix in the form of a $730,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Delivering locally grown fruit and vegetables, plus baked goods, meats, cheese, pickles and more, FreshFix.com makes it easy for people to get the good stuff.
The three-year grant will help FreshFix expand from a retail operation that serves some 2,000 residential customers each week to a regional food hub that can also offer wholesale produce to non-profits serving food-challenged communities in Western New York.
Lucia Leone, a professor of community health at the University at Buffalo, co-founded FreshFix with her husband, Joshua Bowen, in 2016 and saw it grow during the Covid-19 pandemic, when food delivery in general gained importance and local food ruled as national supply chains broke down.
Since then, FreshFix has been trying to expand its efforts to work with area non-profits to offer subsidized produce to their clients, largely through donations from residential customers ordering weekly food boxes via its website.
“But demand on the nonprofit side started vastly exceeding donations, and that’s when we applied for this grant to…
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