Who We Work With

Our work bridges urban and rural communities to build resilient, robust regional food systems.

With the support of our philanthropic funders, we aggregate, distribute, and market local, healthy food from family farmers, ranchers, and producers distribute it to institutional partners located throughout our four regions: the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Texas, and Great Lakes.

Though our partners are primarily in the categories listed below, we work with any communities seeking to shift towards a more values-based food procurement strategy.

Schools

Easy, local sourcing for school food programs including marketing materials to help with promotion and identification of sources on every box for verification and traceability
Support inside the cafeteria programming like Harvest of the Month features, Recipe Highlights, and Taste Testing
Outside the cafeteria opportunities such as Farm-Fresh Boxes for food insecure families, wrap-around services, and afterschool programming

Higher Ed

Source local, healthy food that aligns with student and administrator’s values
Reliable supply chains ensure that local food arrives quickly and efficiently
Tracking and impact statements to help meet university goals around local investment, diversity, and sustainability

Healthcare

Serve wholesome, tasty food to hospital staff and patients by sourcing locally
Align with internal purchasing policies and support family farms
Opportunities include wholesale purchasing, local Farm Stands, Farm-Fresh Boxes for distribution, and Harvest of the Month spotlights for the cafeteria

Food as Medicine

Improve social determinants of health with locally sourced, high-quality food that meets community demand and aligns with institutional values
Fill FoodRx prescriptions with local, healthy food sourced from a robust, regional food system
Combat food insecurity and encourage healthy habits among community members by distributing Farm-Fresh Boxes

Sustainability Leaders

Easily meet procurement goals around ESG and sustainability with clear origin labeling and tracking
Our Farmer Impact Assessment provides detailed impact reporting around local economies, community health, animal welfare, and environmental sustainability.
Our farm partners and internal team are committed to climate friendly practices

Farmers

Our producers are all located within 250 miles of our warehouses
Farmers and ranchers meet requirements that match our partners’ values-aligned procurement priorities
We support diverse and historically underserved farmers through fair and transparent pricing, timely payments, technical assistance, collaborative planning and marketing, and more.

Funders

As a nonprofit food distributor and social enterprise, philanthropic support fuels our work to increase food security, farm viability, and community and ecological health across the country
Investment in our work offers the opportunity for broad intersectional systems impact
Support for The Common Market advances institutional values-based procurement and partnership development, investment in the supply chain, food access expansion, critical infrastructure, national replication of our model, and more!