Farm to Family School Bus Turned Farmers Market
If you see a school bus rolling down the streets of Richmond, Virginia, look closer- that bus might not be transporting school children, but fresh produce from the peripheral rural farming areas around the city. Mark Lilly has transformed a 1987 diesel school bus into a mobile produce market in order to connect local farms with communities to re-establish a personal relationship with locally grown food, and of course to encourage better eating and general well-being. Farm to Family, the bus market and CSA program, changes its offerings throughout the year to reflect what's growing every season. And the space itself, inside the bus, is smartly planned and built-out as a sturdy framework for toting vegetables around town. Check out their website to see where they're pulling up next!
Walter Jeffries commented:
That's great! I love it. What about some fiberglass roof panels? We have an old extended body cargo van that we use for our farm. It hauls, at the same time, six live pigs in the way back, six pigs in the chest freezer in the middle, six people in the front and one dog. We can also pickup one ton loads of apples, cheese and other good foods for our animals. It's great to keep these old vehicles in service. I figure that per pound transported our 1996 cargo van gets many times better mileage than a Prius. It's not the miles you drive but how much you haul with as little fuel as possible.
Cheers
-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
sugarmtnfarm.com
