I believe that my friend Allisha and I started talking about and taking action to have Bountiful Baskets in Green River back in July so you can only imagine the excitement and huge relief we felt on Oct 2nd when it finally happened. A quick overview of what it is: Bountiful Baskets is a food buying Co-op that is all volunteer run. You place your order on the internet and pay $15.00 for a basket of fruits and vegetables. Everyones money is pooled and then used to buy fresh, local, restaurant and grocery store quality produce that is distributed back to all the participants. It is shipped by truck to all the sites. Allisha and I are the site coordinators for Green River. That means we have had to train, do paperwork, deal with miss communication after miss communication and finally have got this wonderful program to our town. It is such a blessing to bring fresh produce that is affordable to our area. We hope that word of it will spread like wild fire so that lots of people can get in on it. Here are the highlights from our first pick up.
Here are our wonderful volunteers (which include husbands) unloading the produce boxes from the truck.
Allisha carrying a 50lb bag of potatoes as if it were a kleenix tissue. The girl can heft two children and a laundry basket with out batting an eyelash. The power of being of mother of 5.
Our produce boxes sorted out into fruit and vegetable piles.
Allie checking everything out.
The baskets that the fruits and veggies will be sorted into. Allisha's mother in law thought they would be hand woven since we are called Bountiful Baskets. I said, "we are trying to offer produce at a discounted rate, not a higher price because we have to spend our spare time weaving baskets." LOL
The distribution begins. This is very organized, well Allisha and I have it very organized. We had some good training experiences and some not so good ones so we took what we liked best and are running a tight ship at our site.
My basket is always bountiful with these two.
Doesn't the lettuce look so beautiful? For fruits we got: apples, grapes, strawberries, a cantaloupe, bananas, and plums and for vegetables we got: lettuce, red peppers, artichokes, cauliflower, potatoes and tomatoes. I am happy to report we have eaten a ton of ours already.
A better look at what you get for $15.00
Allisha and I standing by our line of baskets with pride. What a fun thing to be a part of and we are so grateful for everyone that showed up to help and all the enthusiasm that is brewing over this (except from local grocers). Can't please everyone.
My friend Allisha and I have now both completed our training to be "Official Site Coordinators" (doesn't that sound official) for Bountiful Baskets here in Green River. We have submitted our start date as the 21st of August and are waiting to hear back if we are approved (hate waiting to be approved for things). It is exciting. People come up to me around town and ask about being a part of Bountiful Baskets (quite a few people have heard about it from friends and family) and others are interested in knowing what it is about. This will be a huge benefit to our small town. Can't wait to get it started.
Here are our wonderful volunteers (which include husbands) unloading the produce boxes from the truck.
Allisha carrying a 50lb bag of potatoes as if it were a kleenix tissue. The girl can heft two children and a laundry basket with out batting an eyelash. The power of being of mother of 5.
Our produce boxes sorted out into fruit and vegetable piles.
Allie checking everything out.
The baskets that the fruits and veggies will be sorted into. Allisha's mother in law thought they would be hand woven since we are called Bountiful Baskets. I said, "we are trying to offer produce at a discounted rate, not a higher price because we have to spend our spare time weaving baskets." LOL
The distribution begins. This is very organized, well Allisha and I have it very organized. We had some good training experiences and some not so good ones so we took what we liked best and are running a tight ship at our site.
My basket is always bountiful with these two.
Doesn't the lettuce look so beautiful? For fruits we got: apples, grapes, strawberries, a cantaloupe, bananas, and plums and for vegetables we got: lettuce, red peppers, artichokes, cauliflower, potatoes and tomatoes. I am happy to report we have eaten a ton of ours already.
A better look at what you get for $15.00
Allisha and I standing by our line of baskets with pride. What a fun thing to be a part of and we are so grateful for everyone that showed up to help and all the enthusiasm that is brewing over this (except from local grocers). Can't please everyone. 
