Our National Partnerships Director Rachel Terry had an enriched experience at last year's NACUFS National Conference. Next week, team Common Market is excited to return and build connections with colleges and universities ready to elevate their campus dining with local, high-quality food and partnership! Jamie Phelps Proctor and Jeremy Logan are excited to represent. We cannot wait to meet you at #NACUFS2024 in Louisville, Kentucky! https://lnkd.in/gCbUB7Ci
The Common Market
Food and Beverage Services
Philadelphia, PA 4,026 followers
Delivering local food for the common good.
About us
The Common Market is a nonprofit wholesale food distributor that is successfully building sustainable regional food systems that strengthen the health and wealth of all people. By building relationships between sustainable family farms and markets in their region, we are strengthening our communities’ health, environment, and local economies. We build the supply chain and we partner with both farmers and customers from procurement through delivery, so that schools, hospitals, cities, and businesses can realize the full value of a healthy food system. We’ve helped more than 300 sustainable family farms deliver over 58 million meals worth of food to community institutions. Locations: The Common Market Southeast — Atlanta, GA The Common Market Mid-Atlantic — Philadelphia, PA The Common Market Texas — Houston, TX The Common Market Great Lakes — Chicago, IL...coming soon!
- Website
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https://www.thecommonmarket.org/
External link for The Common Market
- Industry
- Food and Beverage Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- Philadelphia, PA
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2008
- Specialties
- wholesale distribution, local food, farm food, regional food systems, value chain, and food hub
Locations
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Primary
428 E. Erie Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19134, US
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1050 Oakleigh Drive
East Point, GA 30344, US
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2121 Gulf Central Dr
Houston, Texas 77023, US
Employees at The Common Market
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Kameko Nichols
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Jamie Phelps Proctor
Local Foods powered by The Common Market
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Clayton Mitchell, PE, CEM
Executive Consultant & Corporate Real Estate Executive | Executive & Leadership Coach | Public Speaker | Healthcare Infrastructure Strategist |…
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Caitlin Honan
Communications and Marketing Director at The Common Market
Updates
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"New food options and more coming to student center as Mercer Culinary Group launches" "This includes initiatives such as partnering with The Common Market to provide sustainable, local produce in the dining halls; offering a True Balance station that doesn’t use any of the top nine allergens; and providing the culinary team with professional development opportunities." We are proud to help elevate on-campus dining experiences. Excited for our partners and students at Mercer University! https://lnkd.in/eCad2ShG
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Happy National Blueberry Day! Us Midwesterners are fortunate to be near by farmers producing some of the world's most delicious, healthy treats. Sending out a big thanks to Jamie Phelps Proctor and the folks at The Common Market for securing a bounty of blueberries sourced from MICK KLUG FARM for families participating in the The Reva & David Logan Foundation Fresh Produce Program! #blueberries #eattherainbow 🫐🌈
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The week of July 4 marks the anniversary of our very first local food delivery in Philadelphia, our founding city. In July 2008, married couple Tatiana Granados and Haile Johnston founded The Common Market to enhance health outcomes and promote food sovereignty in their North Philadelphia neighborhood. In their work, they identified a significant disconnect between communities like theirs and nearby small family farms. There were so many challenges for farmers to get their good food to schools, hospitals, and other wholesale outlets...there had to be a better way. So, they set out to create a mutually beneficial link between urban and rural communities, and in turn, establish relationships that built up the health and wealth of all people. Since those founding days, we estimate close to 120 million healthy meals have been served through our partnerships. Today, we continue to build upon our progress, together. We are building a new equitable, vibrant food system. Thanks for being along for the ride! 🚛
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AWESOME news for inclusive, culturally appropriate foods in schools!
Today, July 1, 2024, many of the new USDA nutrition standards for school meals go into effect! These updates include many of the positive changes that NFSN and our Partners had advocated for—that support more nourishing, equitable, and locally sourced school meals. 👏 One impactful area of these updates are the new measures that support culturally relevant meals and accommodate diverse dietary needs. Starting today: 🌱 Schools can include traditional Indigenous foods as part of a reimbursable meal. 🌱 Schools now have a clearer authority to source from Tribal producers and serve Indigenous foods in school meals! 🌱 Schools serving primarily American Indian or Alaska Native children can now serve vegetables to meet the grains requirement. This also extends to Guam and Hawai’i, allowing them to offer culturally relevant vegetables like yams, plantains, or sweet potatoes in place of grains. 🌱 Schools can now serve a wider variety of plant-based proteins! Beans, peas, and lentils can count towards both the “meats/meat alternates” and the weekly vegetable subgroup requirements. Nuts and seeds can also now fulfill the entire “meats/meat alternates” component. These changes will better support students with various dietary preferences or needs, while encouraging a greater variety of protein sources in school meals. This is also an important milestone in recognizing and celebrating the foods that align with students’ cultures in school meals! Read more about these important updates in our latest blog post. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eAhPGs5e
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A rainbow of produce lines our exhibition table at the Texas Association for School Nutrition Annual Conference, and team Texas is having a blast connecting with school food leaders from across the state! We make it simple to connect school kitchens to high-quality, local product from our exclusively Texas farmer network. Stop by Booth #902 to learn more, and see + taste some of the delicious, fresh products our Great State of Texas has to offer - from juicy peaches, to hydroponic lettuces, to Texas-grown organic rice. #TASNInspires I Jeremy Logan
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Catch us at the Texas Association for School Nutrition 2024 Annual Conference in San Antonio! June 29-July 2, 2024 The Common Market Texas will be exhibiting on the floor, booth #902 - come say hello and see the beauty of our Texas fruits and vegetables! Jeremy Logan #FarmtoSchool #foodservice #TexasSchools #schoolfood #healthyfoodinschools
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The Menus of Change Leadership Summit features over 40 presenters, including nutrition and environmental scientists, consumer insight experts, chefs and culinary entrepreneurs, CIA faculty, business leaders and investment analysts, industry sector innovators, and other food systems changemakers.
2024 Menus of Change
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We recently had the opportunity to host end-of-year celebrations in Charlotte, NC and Camden, NJ to showcase the impact of Full Futures! Full Futures, a program launched by Campbell's, brings together non-profit, public sector, and corporate partners to increase nutrition access, expand school meal programs, and foster school nutrition environments that ensure all students are well-nourished and ready to thrive at school and in life. Our Full Futures Charlotte celebration featured food prepared by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools culinary arts students and a presentation by student interns about their experience working with 100 Gardens and The Bulb. The celebration also included a Family Nutrition Night at Eastway Middle School, which offered free local produce and nutrition education to more than 60 families. Our Full Futures Camden gathering brought students and partners together to celebrate year-end highlights with Wellness in the Schools, Food Bank of South Jersey, the Camden Youth Advisory Council (CYAC), and Camden City School District's Nutrition Team. We were also joined by School Nutrition Student Ambassadors and the district's first-ever Jr. Chef, who are responsible for preparing food for their peers. We're looking forward to the continued growth and impact of Full Futures and ongoing collaboration with our fellow Full Futures partners! #HealthySchools #SchoolNutrition #SchoolMeals #FoodAccess The Common Market, Whitsons Culinary Group, New Jersey American Water, Center For Family Services
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Thrilled to be at the Menus of Change conference today to share more about how we partner with institutions through #forwardcommitments to build greater #equity and #access to wholesale markets for small and diverse farmers across our supply chain. Come say hi and look forward to connecting! The Culinary Institute of America || The Common Market