There’s a new bus on the road!
Second Harvest is adding a retired STA bus to its fleet of Mobile Market trucks.
Second Harvest holds between 200 and 250 Mobile Markets a year in Spokane and throughout areas of Eastern Washington and North Idaho.
The Mobile Market program has been in place since 2016.
The Mobile Market bus is the organization’s latest effort to get food to the people who need it most, according to Second Harvest Community Relations Manager Julie Humphreys.
“We are continually looking for new and innovative ways to help our most vulnerable neighbors have access to nutritious food at no cost,” Humphreys said.
The bus will allow Second Harvest to access areas where it can’t take the larger Mobile Market trucks and to target specific needs in specific neighborhoods.
The bus is designed to be like a mobile grocery store that people can walk through and choose the foods they would like.
A Second Harvest Nutrition Ambassadors will be on hand on the bus to help people educate people on healthy food choices and to provide food samples and recipes.
Humphreys hopes the bus will be ready to go in early 2019.
Humphreys said it has been retrofitted and equipped. It’s undergoing a mechanical check just now.
You can learn more about the bus and Second Harvest's mobile markets here.