Mobile Market

Mobile markets are designed to address food access issues in underserved areas, such as food deserts where residents have limited access to affordable, fresh, and nutritious food.

 

New Entry Food Hub's Mobile Market is a registered SNAP & HIP vendor and brings local produce to the community from our network of beginning and small-scale producers. The market runs for 25 weeks a year (mid-March through October) in various locations around the North Shore and greater Boston. Our updated schedule will be posted seasonally!

Our produce offerings change month to month; below is an overview of items you can expect to see at the market each season:

 

 

The North Shore Mobile Market Coalition (NSMMC)

In the North Shore region, there are over 53 mobile market sites, with 89% of them operating as no-cost food aid markets, providing free staples to families in need. However, there's a significant opportunity to develop new economic models that support local producers while meeting community needs.

In 2024, New Entry Food Hub launched a new regional collaboration of stakeholders operating mobile markets in the North Shore region of Massachusetts to increase the distribution, promotion, and direct sales of local fruits and vegetables and value-added products.

Our goals are to leverage the purchasing power of dozens of mobile market operators to procure and promote locally grown produce, to build new market channels for small, beginning, and historically underserved producers, and increase access to fresh, locally grown produce for consumers facing food insecurity.

Thank you to the organizations committed to participating in the NSMMC:

  • Nourishing the North Shore (Newbury, MA)
  • YMCA of Greater Boston (Boston, MA)
  • Age Span (Lawrence, MA)
  • The Open Door (Gloucester, MA)
  • Beverly Bootstraps (Beverly, MA)
  • The Salem Pantry (Salem, MA)
  • Building Audacity (Lynn, MA)
  • The Food Project (Lynn, MA)
  • City of Somerville Office of Food Access and Healthy Communities (Somerville, MA)
  • Newhall Field Community Farm (Peabody, MA)
  • Eastie Farm (East Boston, MA)
  • Root North Shore (Salem, MA)
  • Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical High School (Danvers, MA)
  • New Entry Food Hub (Beverly, MA)

This much needed regional coalition was catalyzed by the findings of the 2020 Conway School’s Upper North Shore Food Study that recommended expanding mobile markets in this region to increase food access in underserved areas.  Additional community food assessments in the region have been conducted by the City of Salem’s Food Policy Council (2019) and the Peabody Community Food Council (2021); both prioritize increasing food access through new direct market linkages between local producers and consumers. The NSMMC aims to increase local food purchasing by mobile produce markets and promote local farmers and local food. We aim to improve access to fresh local food by chosing mobile markets locations that are not served by farmers markets or grocery stores and represent low-income/low-access areas.