SEMAP & FoodEx Launch Tour

New Bedford Meeting

Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership (SEMAP), a local food non-profit, and Organic Renaissance Food Exchange (ORFoodEx) a triple-bottom-line logistics service provider, have come together to make local food distribution a reality and strengthen the regional food system in southeastern Mass. 

FoodEx, operated by Organic Renaissance LLC, will operate a food hub at Cove Street in New Bedford’s south end, providing local pickups, deliveries, and warehousing while opening direct access to Boston and other regional markets.  SEMAP will facilitate introductions to the web-based service and provide technical assistance to farmers transitioning to wholesale through its Farms Forever program, which helps to sustain working farmlands, and to enable new and next-generation producers to farm through more effective farmland transfer and tenure arrangements.

SEMAP will host a three-stop launch tour for growers, producers and buyers to view a demonstration of the FoodEx platform at www.orfoodex.com.  FoodEx president, Jonathan D. Kemp, will provide a detailed description of how FoodEx coordinates transportation of local foods from the farm or New Bedford facilities directly to chefs, retailers, institutions, and other buyers throughout New England.  Each informational session will allow  plenty of time for Q&A.

The New Bedford meeting will have a bonus tour of the loading dock and storage space.

Click below to RSVP for the NEW BEDFORD launch meeting.  Other meeting locations can be found at http://semaponline.org/semap/classes-events/