The Farmers Market truck The Rollin’ Root rolls in on Thursdays, 11 am to noon for residents to purchase local, fresh, healthy, organic fruits and vegetables right in our own clubhouse parking lot without residents having to drive to supermarkets and farmers markets. This is a special service provided by AIM for seniors unable to travel to easily and/or unable to purchase affordable healthy food. If you forget your bag, Rollin’ Root bags will be available.
Television Channel 7 along with over forty Marin Valley residents welcomed The Rollin’ Root mobile farmers market on their first day at Marin Valley, Thursday, August 9. The nonprofit Agricultural Institute of Marin (AIM) farmers market on wheels provides seniors in affordable communities access to locally grown healthy, and mostly all organic, fruits and vegetables.
Their goal is to overcome transportation barriers so all people can get local, fresh products. On Thursdays it stops at three senior communities: Whistlestop, Maria B. Freitas Senior Community, Marin Valley, and soon at Marin City.
Coming in the near future the Rollin’ Root promises to offer fun and engaging nutrition lessons on ways to plan, shop, store, and cook with local ingredients — on a budget. They are bringing senior communities together to celebrate healthy eating and healthy aging!
AIM’s work for The Rollin’ Root is in collaboration with a wider countywide Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) strategy, partnering with Marin County Health and Human Services, the Marin Food Policy Council, the SF-Marin Food Bank, the Interfaith Sustainable Food Collaborative, ExtraFood.org, and others to increase access to fresh, healthy food for all residents, regardless of economic status.
Watch for Weekly List
Usually two to three days in advance, we will list the produce items that will be delivered on the upcoming Thursday, if that information is available. Check the News items each week on our home page for a listing of Thursdays’ items that should be on the truck.
For example the items that were offered on August 23rd were:
Rollin’ Root Items
White Peaches – organic
Yellow Peaches- organic
Pluots – organic
Summer Squash- Organic
Cherry tomatoes (sungold) – organic
Carrots- Loose nantes- Organic
Tomato- Early Girl- Organic
Mixed Salanovas Lettuce- organic
Strawberries – organic
Blackberries – organic
Avocado- non organic
Reduced fat 2% milk – Straus quart
Whole Plain Yogurt
1 case of Euro yogurt non fat vanilla yogurt
Cilantro- organic
Chard – organic
Beets – organic
Sweet baby broccoli- organic