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The Off-Meal-Plan Plan: Market Shares in the Bag

Jennifer Chen | THE Brown daily herald | 2024

“I have something funny to tell you: Nobody at the train station would ever guess that I was carrying a whole butternut squash, carrots and several turnips in my suitcase.”

Brown Market Shares Program: Bringing Fresh, Local Produce to College Hill

alyssa gerasimoff | edible rhody | 2018

“Who knew that college students would prefer mustard greens over instant ramen and radishes over boxed mac ’n’ cheese?”

“It’s undeniable that the Brown Market Shares Program has touched the lives of everyone who has been a part of it. Over the past 12 years, by making fresh, organic and local produce affordable and accessible, Market Shares has become an extremely impactful group on Brown University’s campus. We can only thank the original coordinating team that fought to start the first student-run CSA in the country, right here on College Hill.”

Colleges add something to their menus: Making sure students have enough to eat

LINDA BORG | THE providence journal | 2021

“Students have also stepped up, running a program called Brown Market Shares that provides fresh, locally grown food to struggling students, staff and even graduate students. It’s subsidized by faculty and students who pay full price for shares in the program.”

Campus Local Food Subscription Case Study: Brown Market Shares Program

Danielle Walczak | FARM TO INSTITUTION NEW ENGLAND | 2017

“Brown Market Shares Program began by offering subsidized shares to Brown Dining employees. In the program’s ten years of operation, it still offers subsidized shares to various Brown University employees while making sustainable food more available to the Brown community and supporting a handful of local farms. The Brown Market Shares Program (BMSP) hosts over 400 shares while offering shares that are 10 percent cheaper than than the average CSA share in Rhode Island.”