Bountiful Baskets Offers Fresh Fruits & Vegetables at Cheap Price
By Mayuri, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, July 27, 2010
MESA (GaeaTimes.com) - Bountiful Baskets is a non-profit oraganisation which aims to deliver baskets of fruits and vegetables to people across seven countries at a very low price.
Bountiful Baskets was founded by two friends, Sally Stevens and Tanya Jolly in Mesa. It sells one basket of fresh fruits and another basket of fresh vegetables at only $15, which is the wholesale price in the market. A person can volunteer to unload the two baskets to different families. If you don’t want to volunteer, you just simply pay $15 and Bountiful Basket will post the time and location on the website. You just reach there to get two baskets of fresh green produce.
It is interesting to know what motivates the co-founders to run such an unusual organisation. Sally and Tanya explains that they love to offer fresh produce to families and see them feel happy. They explains that the produce is fresh and inexpensive because it is ordered locally from the wholesale market and handled by volunteers, instead of a paid staff. Most of the produce comes from Arizona and some from Mexico.
Testimonies from Bountiful Baskets participants are posted on the co-op’s Facebook page.
