The truck was already being utilized for the tribe’s pop-up market that was created amid the pandemic, so residents didn’t have to leave the reservation to shop at nearby grocery stores for essential items.Ĭontents of the boxes change each week based on the seasonal fruit and vegetable harvests from local farms, but a recent delivery included baby carrots, pears, iceberg lettuce, celery, strawberries, Pink Lady apples, white peaches, tangelos and sweet corn. Throughout the month of June, 320 boxes of fresh produce are delivered each week to the Soboba Reservation where it is stored in a refrigerator truck. The Soboba Foundation is the nonprofit arm of the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians and was able to quickly set up a weekly distribution program to benefit its tribal members. When Riverside Food Hub was awarded a USDA “Farmers to Families” grant, it sought nonprofit distribution sites where boxes of fresh produce could be delivered and put to good use by grateful families.
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