One of the Growing Food Connections Communities of Opportunity, Polk County, NC recently passed a new policy to allow the creation of a mobile farmers market. The county-wide mobile market, run by Growing Rural Opportunities, will launch out of a bookmobile donated by the county. The county commissioners recently approved the new resolution to allow the county to donate any personal property that is deemed to be surplus, obsolete or unused to a nonprofit organization. The new mobile farmers market will be one of the only mobile markets in western North Carolina. The passage of this new policy demonstrates the power of nonprofit, private, and local government collaboration. The Growing Food Connections team congratulates Polk County on the new policy to support agriculture and expand access to healthy foods for all of Polk’s residents.

Please see the  Tryon Daily Bulletin article for more information about the bookmobile to mobile farmers market conversion.