"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - Buckminster Fuller
Welcome to the ACORN Food Hub!
About the Food Hub
Centrally located in Middlebury, Vermont, the ACORN Food Hub hosts an Online Market as well as local supply chain support to aggregate, market, and distribute food products from producers and farms around Vermont’s Champlain Valley. The Food Hub also provides farm to school support to local schools, consumer education, transparent pricing, high-quality customer support and houses the Farmacy: Food is Medicine program.
The Food Hub offers a unique set of services to support farmers and food producers:
Dry, Refrigerated, & Frozen Storage
Cross-Docking
Freight Drop
CSA Hosting
Increased access to markets
Contact the Food Hub Manager to learn more!
Online Wholesale Market: One order • One invoice • One delivery
Wholesale and bulk buyers across the Champlain Valley can now source unique local products from diverse farmers and food producers using the Online Market.
The Online Market is open to buyers of all kinds including: restaurants, retailers, groceries, caterers, schools and colleges, farm stands, and community members.
Why an online wholesale market?
This market makes it easy for wholesale buyers to purchase food from multiple local producers, rather than purchasing from wholesale distributors that truck in food from further afield, as well as receiving only one invoice despite ordering from various producers.
Deliveries through the Online Market Now Available to Certain Locations
Vision
The vision of the ACORN Food Hub is to increase access to nutritious, local food by making it easier for wholesale buyers (restaurants, retail stores, colleges, universities, grocery stores, local schools, hospitals, and farmstands) to source and provide local products to the community. The Food Hub will help increase access to markets for local food producers, which will in turn promote farm viability and contribute to a vibrant local economy.
Our guiding principles are: Community Focused - Convenient - High Quality
The ACORN Food Hub is located at 616 Exchange Street, Middlebury, Warehouse #5.
ACORN Food Hub in Seven Days
“This ACORN thing is something I've been dreaming about," Wheeler said. "It's all in one place. I can look at the list and plan our menu based on what's available." Plus, she added, "Payment happens automatically. It's better than any food distributor we work with." - Erin Wheeler, Bobcat Cafe and Brewery (Read the whole article here.)
Some of our participating farms and food producers include:
Click here to get to know all our producers
If you’d like to collaborate on the ACORN Food Hub or have any questions, please email the market manager at market@acornvt.org.
We thank all of our funders and community support for making this possible, and specifically recognize the following funders:
This project is supported by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets and the Vermont Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Funding for the Online Wholesale Market was made possible by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service through grant 21SCBPVT1054. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA.
