Bring the Farmers Market Home

A little confusing and complex, but the Farm Fresh RI is trying to adapt their wholesale order and pickup/deliver process to residential customers. Here’s what the process is at this time:

Residential customers can join wholesale buyers in using the Market Mobile service to get fresh food from local farms. In this unprecedented time, they are seeing an immediate need from the farming community to find outlets for the food that is being grown — as well as from the community, to have a safe way to purchase local food.

Home delivery: To Providence, Pawtucket, and East Bay only, at this time.

Curbside Pickup: If you are outside of these delivery areas, you can place an order for curbside pickup located in The Hope Artiste Village building (1005 Main St) in Pawtucket. There is a minimum order size of $60 for pickup or delivery.

How Does Market Mobile Work?

1) Create an account. It takes less than a minute! (Under Business Category, feel free to choose “Advocate.”) Once signed up, return to this same page to log in for future orders.

2) Once logged in, click the “Market Mobile” link. This will take you to the online order form, where you can choose food from the local farmers and food makers who have listed their items for sale. Think of it as an online farmers market!

3) To order an item, add the quantity of what you’d like in the field next to the item. Please only order whole number values, not partial or half orders (e.g., 1 or 2, not 0.5).

Please be aware that this platform is traditionally used for wholesale purchasing, therefore the quantities offered may be larger than what you are used to buying. Some people have been pooling orders with family or neighbors to help make the larger quantities work for them. If you have questions about sizing, please email us at [email protected].

4) Be sure to click the Update Order button, found at the bottom of every farm/producer’s list. You can do this at any point while filling in the order form but be sure to do it at least when you are finished adding items.

NOTE: By adding quantities and clicking “Update Order” on this form, you are placing an order. There is no separate cart or check-out process.

5) Once you’ve completed your order, click the Buy Now button to enter payment information. Your order must be paid online, either via PayPal account or using a debit/credit card. Either way, we use PayPal for processing the transaction. PayPal will include its 3% transaction fee during checkout.

If you have questions about using SNAP/EBT, please email Lexi: [email protected].

Two Weekly Order Cycles

We run two weekly order/delivery cycles, as shown below. (These are subject to change as we continue to scale our operations to meet the current demand.)

• Orders placed Mondays can be picked up Friday (10am-4pm) or will be delivered either Thursday or Friday (we will notify you).

• Orders placed Thursdays can be picked up Tuesday (12-4pm) or will be delivered either Tuesday or Wednesday (we will notify you).

The order form is intentionally inactive outside these ordering windows. This allows local farmers and food makers time to update what they have listed for sale based on their most current inventory.

The order form becomes live at 8:00am on Mondays and Thursdays and is intended to remain open all day. However, during this time of heightened demand, we recommend placing orders as early as possible.

We reserve the right to close ordering early, whenever we exceed our capacity to fulfill orders. Thank you for understanding as we work to scale up our operations during this challenging time.

So, write down that order info – gather your thoughts on Sunday and Wednesday and order on Monday and Thursday.

It’s a little cumbersome, but hopefully will get streamlined along the way.

For more info: www.FarmFreshRI.org