Amherst Mobile Market

The Amherst Mobile Market (AMM) is a community driven, multilingual, mobile, farmers market that offers high-quality, fresh, affordable, local, and culturally desirable foods to Amherst communities challenged by poor food access and limited income. As the community’s market, we work to build a rich and supportive environment by serving as a hub for nourishment, information, connection, belonging, and empowerment.

The Amherst Mobile Market (AMM) is a community driven, multilingual, mobile, farmers market that transports and delivers high-quality, fresh, affordable, local, and culturally desirable foods to Amherst communities challenged by poor food access and limited income. On a typical market day, the AMM van travels to local farms, purchases fresh fruit and vegetables, and sets up a portable market at a pre-determined location, designated by the USDA as a “food desert,” that is also largely Spanish-speaking, low income and BIPOC. Food is sold at close to wholesale prices – majority are SNAP (food stamp) recipients. Unsold fresh food, such as fresh greens, are donated at the end of the day to the Amherst Survival Center.