• Access to healthy, delicious, unprocessed food
• Knowing that your vegetables are grown sustainably/organically
• Opportunity and motivation to try varieties of vegetables you can’t get at a grocery store
• Motivation to cook more and to eat at home more
• Chance to meet your neighbors and build community
• Receive better value for your food dollar
• Opportunity to eat seasonally
• Knowledge of where your food comes from
• Having a way to vote with your food dollars for a healthy food system
• Connections are developed between urban and rural communities
• Brings diverse groups together around food
• Keeps money in the local economy