TMC Healthy Harvest Mobile Market is now rolling in Kansas City
Neighborhoods used to have produce carts, simple wooden boxes stacked with apples, bananas and oranges. With Kansas City a bit more spread out geographically these days, it made sense to get something a little bigger. The Healthy Harvest Mobile Market — a former Kansas City Area Transportation Authority bus converted into a rolling produce stand — hits the road today.
The moving market is a joint effort between Truman Medical Centers and the Hospital Hill Economic Development Corp. designed to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to the urban core in areas known as “food deserts” (so designated because of residents’ lack of access to a traditional grocery store and produce).
