If you’re a Spokane resident, you can find a company that will take your grocery order and deliver the goods right to your door. Now there’s a small Spokane firm there will do the same, but focused on produce grown on local farms.
Share Farm is a company founded by two Whitworth graduates, Vincent Peak and Eric Kobe.
Here’s how it works: You visit Share Farm’s website or download its app. You browse the inventory of food that’s available. You place your order, pay for it and it’s delivered to your house in anywhere from 12 hours to two days, depending on the timing of the order.
Peak says Share Farm has agreements with about 20 local farms, which take their harvested fruits and vegetables to Charlie’s Produce, a five-state distributor with a warehouse in east Spokane.
“They house the product for us, box it, package it, set it up for us. Then we come in in the mornings, usually around 4 am, pick up the boxes and deliver the boxes, usually within a two-hour period. So when people wake up in the morning, the food is already on their doorstep. They can pull it inside, put it in the fridge before they head to work. And it’s not sitting out," he said.
The minimum order is $30.
Peak says sellers use the app to let Share Farm know what they’ve delivered to the warehouse. The farmers pay 20% of their sales to Share Farm.
For now, he says, the target customer is someone who wants to know they’re buying high quality local food.
“They also want to be part of this environmental movement and cause of purchasing local products, organic products, lower pesticide, lower residue runoff into the water and the river," Peak said. "So there’s this huge push for more sustainably sourced products.”
Share Farm will begin taking orders Saturday. Peak will be at a Share Farm booth at the Crave Northwest event at CenterPlace in Spokane Valley.