We source locally grown food and support sustainable agriculture. During our local growing season, roughly June through November, we buy our produce locally.  As a general rule, if an item is on our weekly list, and is available locally, we're buying it locally.  To keep food miles down, we work with over 40 different growers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and New Jersey to bring you fresh, locally grown produce. We NEVER air-freight anything.

We use recycled boxes and keep our packaging to minimum. Paper or Plastic?  We don't use either. We use misprints and recycled boxes for our deliveries, and are happy to pick up the boxes on your next delivery day and re-use them as long as they are in good condition.  Once they have seen the end of their usability, we recycle them.  We also bag only those items that need to be bagged..beans, grapes etc...and we're happy to recycle those bags. 

 We use less energy. By delivering on set days, we keep our delivery routes tight (our vans make multiple deliveries in every neighborhood) we are able to cut down on the energy used to get your food to your kitchen.  Each of our 10 vans deliver to roughly 40 homes per day, saving 400 trips to the grocery store every day. This also saves your energy...and who can't use a bit more of that!

Our inventory is on-demand, delivered fresh to us each morning, which means no giant coolers or cooled display cases running 24 hours a day. Also, our warehouse is small compared to a grocery store, and we operate only during the morning hours (the rest of the time we're out making deliveries), so the energy footprint for our facility is far less.

We don't waste food....or anything else. We have all our food brought in for specific deliveries, yours,  so we don't carry inventory just to keep shelves stocked and looking full...this cuts down dramatically on waste.  What leftover food we do have is taken home by our employees, and if it is real waste, composted in our garden.  Nothing is more wasteful than spending time and fuel to bring food to it's destination, only for it to end up in a landfill!

We don't waste trees, like our store counter-parts, who send out flyers every week.  The average grocery store sends out over 30,000 8 to 12 page grocery flyers to households in their service area every week...many if not most of which are not used, though hopefully they are recycled..to make more flyers!

We have been around for 15 years and give exceptional service. We've been doing this since 1994, and we still love every minute! We like to think we've learned a thing or two about great food and excellent service over the years, and have helped to usher in this new wave of care for where our food comes from and how it is treated.  We have long believed that our grocery delivery business model has a much lower environmental impact than people going to the grocery store.

We will continue to be the best service we can, learning and incorporating new ways of helping you provide healthy, fun and ecologically sound produce for your family.