Here’s what some of our clients have been saying about us:
Produce buyers at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia and Cooper University Hospital in Camden said they were thrilled with their weekly deliveries of peaches, green beans, cucumbers and other items.
The hospital food purchasers said buying locally was part of their broader effort to serve healthier food.
Mary Grant, assistant director for production services at Jefferson, said she tried last year to get local produce through her main food distributor. "It was a trial for them and a trial for us," she said.
Dealing with the Common Market has taken all that frustration away, Grant said, and to her relief as a purchaser on a budget, "pricing is extremely comparable to the big guys." She has placed $1,000 orders with the Common Market.
At Cooper in Camden, the director of food and nutrition, Fran Cassidy, has been ordering for the hospital cafeteria. She said the quality of the fresh-picked produce has been great and has helped educate consumers. "We had to tell people 'This is really what a fresh local tomato looks like.' "
(source: Common Market Distributes Local Farmers' Produce, Harold Brubaker,
August 6, 2008 Philadelphia Inquirer)
