Our Mission
is to ensure that all community members have equitable access to affordable, in-season, locally-sourced fruits and vegetables so that everyone can experience the joy of cooking and eating fresh, healthy food.
Our Story
Digger Foods started in 2022 to bring the highest-quality fruits and vegetables to low-income people in Brockton. The USDA characterizes much of Brockton as a food desert. This means many of the city’s residents live far from healthful, fresh food they can afford. We are changing this.
Our foundation is a home delivery program. We hope to reach 1,000 food-insecure households with our delivery program in 2024. This program delivers a bag of fresh fruits and veggies to our customers’ homes every two weeks, year-round. Our second program is a weekly mobile farmer’s market, which sells fruits and veggies at housing projects and public schools in Brockton during the local growing season. Both these programs are free for people with SNAP/EBT (food stamps). This is because of Massachusetts’ Healthy Incentives Program (HIP), which immediately reimburses food stamp recipients when they buy produce from licensed vendors like us.
Digger Foods is growing fast. In the coming years, we hope to expand our programming to meet the need for fresh food in Brockton and throughout the entire Metro South region.