“The Mission of OHSU Farmer’s Market is to provide fresh, healthful and locally grown foods and plants to better nourish and sustain our OHSU family”.
The OHSU Departments of Food & Nutrition and Parking & Transportation have partnered to form the OHSU Farmer’s Market to increase access to local fresh foods for healthful eating and a space for true community to be created.
After-hours Pick-Up program
To view the orientation After-Hours Produce Pick-Up Newsletter Click Here
To view the 1st After-Hours Produce Pick-Up Listing for July 8th Click Here
Each week the Farmers Market manager will work with vendors to select items for a bag of local products, including mostly vegetables & fruit
and occasionally bread, cheese, pesto, eggs, flowers and other goods available at the market, depending on feedback from participants. Cost of the bag
is $17, $15 worth of food and $2 to cover the cost of the program. You must be available to pick up produce on tues afternoon from 4-7pm at South Hospital.
How will it work?
- 1. On tuesday evenings, the selections for next week's bag will be e-mailed to interested customers who have signed up on our contact list.
To sign up for listings each week, fill in box below. Select "After-Hours Pick-Up program" as one of the lists you want to be a part of.
For Email Marketing you can trust - 2. Purchase your Bag: You have 2 days to purchase your bag - From 8AM-8PM Wednesday & Thursday of each week for the following week's produce bag via credit card,
debit card, cash, an OHSU badge or VA tickets at It's All Good healthy convenience store on the 9th floor of south hospital. YOU MUST KEEP YOUR RECEIPT
(offer limited to first 100 people who pay until project is evaluated)
- 3. Tuesday afternoons from 4-7pm go to the pick-up location (To be announced soon) WITH YOUR RECEIPT and YOUR FARMERS MARKET BAG to gather your produce and goods for the week.
**YOU MUST BRING YOUR RECEIPT TO PICK UP PRODUCE.. NO EXCEPTIONS**
December 2007 Survey Highlights
This past December we did a campus-wide survey of staff and students and had tremendous results. 2456 people responded to our survey.
Your favorite reasons to visit the market were to get local fresh produce, to support local farmers, and to have the convenience of shopping while at work. The market most affected your enjoyment of being outside, your thoughts regarding the local economy and your increased sense of community.
Approximately ˝ of the visitors noted that their intake of fruits and vegetables increased, that the OHSU FM increased the amount of fresh produce cooked in their home prepared meals and that their value of locally grown foods increased.
These are the kinds of reasons we started the market and will continue to grow its success.
Although only 36% said they came on their lunch break, we realize that the majority of the market hours were not during lunch.. and many comments indicated a desire for more prepared foods vendors and lunchtime hours. We will now hold the market from 11:30 to 3:30. We will also pilot a program to serve your after-hours needs.
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To view the full data analysis of the 2007 survey
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For more information please contact: farmmkt@ohsu.edu