A plastic bin starts out at the top of the line with a list of everything that customer ordered. and, by 5:30 a.m., the first refrigerated trucks are heading out with deliveries. “We are creating jobs for the refugees who live here, and the network is so tight that, when we have a job open, we can fill it almost immediately.”Įarly Tuesday mornings, the packing starts. “Clarkston has been great for us,” Melton said. The 6,000-square-foot space holds a 90-foot double packing line and two large coolers - one that holds produce at 35 degrees, another at 45 degrees. “Each of our rock star farmers shows up at the back of Fresh Harvest, delivering a week’s worth of their produce.”įresh Harvest started out in Lawrenceville, but, for the past six years, it has been operating out of a Clarkston office park. “We don’t have one big 18-wheeler showing up to drop off all the food,” Harrison added. Our farmers deliver on Monday, we pack baskets all week, and by Friday, when the last basket goes out, our coolers are empty.” And, because we know what we sold, we’re not overbuying. “We can give our farmers their orders on Friday, so they’re not overharvesting. “Our model cuts down on food waste,” Melton said. By Friday afternoon, when customization is over, Fresh Harvest knows exactly what it needs to purchase for the coming week. instead of one Yukon Gold potatoes instead of Salanova lettuce. 78.Ĭustomers check in, decide what size basket they need (there are options ranging from mini to a “break room” basket that provides organic fruit for about 25), and then customize the contents: two bunches of cilantro. Fresh Harvest trucks travel anywhere inside the Perimeter, fan out across the northern metro Atlanta counties, as far north as Cumming, and then south through Gwinnett County, down to U.S. Fresh Harvest’s shopping window opens Wednesdays and runs until 2 p.m.
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