Just like air & water, everyone has a right to fresh food. New Roots mission is to ignite community power for fresh food access.
In a nutshell, we are uniting communities to spread food justice.
The main fruit of our labor are the Fresh Stop Markets — farm-fresh food markets that pop up at local churches, businesses, and community centers in fresh food insecure neighborhoods. The food has been paid for in advance so that farmers don’t face the same degree of risk as they do with a standard farmers’ market.
We also facilitate other powerful food justice initiatives such as Kentucky Double Dollars for SNAP Benefits, the Fresh Stop Training Institute, and Food Justice Workshops, all of which are tied to our community-run Fresh Stop Markets.
