Capital Roots

The Veggie Mobile & Veggie Sprout: Our mobile markets, "produce aisles on wheels," bring low cost produce to
urban neighborhoods without easy access to fresh fruits and vegetables. Thirty-six weekly stops serve housing developments, senior and community centers with more than 140 tons of affordable produce annually. Both The
Veggie Mobile and Sprout announce their arrival with lively music and are staffed with friendly Capital Roots'
employees and volunteers who encourage shoppers to try new options and offer healthier cooking and eating tips.
Shoppers can purchase their produce using food stamps and farmers' market nutrition coupons.

The Produce Project is our youth job readiness and life skills training program based on a year round 2-acre urban farm , where inner city teens learn how to grow, harvest and market their own produce. Students learn career and life skills, earn a stipend and school credit, and take a share of what they grow home to their families. Produce Project staff work with students to improve school attendance, increase graduation rates, and plan for work or post secondary education.

Capital Roots works with local governments and community groups to plant hundreds of trees on city streets throughout the area. Our tree program has led to the planting of hundreds trees over the past four decades.

Capital Roots’ Squash Hunger program is a food donation initiative that collects and distributes more than 40 tons of fresh produce to our region’s food pantries and shelters each year.