Market on the Move, The 3000 Club

Still making soups and sharing. Really good produce. Thanks again! Will send pictures next time.

Awesome opportunity to get produce and help a great cause.
Today I went with my mom and we got lots of veggies some fruit and even a sandwich, bread and butter.
So the way this works is that you give a $ 10 donation and you can take up to 60lbs of produce home. I split this with my mom as we didn’t want to take more than we would use. There was a delay with the truck today, however this is for a good cause, so it’s worth the wait! It’s well organized and a great deal for everyone, while reducing food waste! Today I got 8 giant bell peppers (4 green 4 red), 8 zucchini, 2 pints of black berries, cucumbers and acorn squash were unlimited, 8 Roma tomatoes and 12 yellow tomatoes (mom also too a loaf of bread, a lb of butter and a deli Italian sandwich).
Check it out and they need volunteers! I’ll be helping them soon.

While there was a wide variety of produce when I have gone to this business’ locations, a lot has been over-​ripe or even partly rotten. What is good needs to be used or shared immediately.

Amazing deal! You really have to ask I truly get to pick up all these veggies– all these veggies for $ 10? Amazing!
So I haven’t had the pleasure of going on an early Saturday morning, but they have a prepaid online donation and pick up service. So you make your donation $ 10 for 1 box and $ 15 for two boxes and then schedule a time base on availability and then they load it in your car! which is amazing for me since i had 3 knee surgeries (walking and standing really aren’t my thing at this time). When you show up for pick up they greet you and you sign a lovely check in list that says you got your goodies and they load your 1 or 2 boxes in your car! The fruits and veggies you get do very from week to week but boy o boy are they some good stuff. This past week we picked up our boxes and it included: yellow squash, red bell peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, melons, honeydew, grapes, purple onions, fonzy melon, and mangos!

10 dollar donation for up to 60 pounds of fruits and veggies!!! I couldn’t believe it when I stumble upon the Unilocal reviews, so I had to check it out for myself.
They apparently have a different variety every Saturday so if you want to make this a routine, I would stop by and check the board before waiting in the line.
Usually a lot of them are as much as you can grab, some fruits/​veggies are limited.
I was able to get a max of 2 seedless watermelons, 2 honeydew melons, and 6 bell peppers. We grabbed SOOO many other peppers, zucchini, tomatoes and a variety of squash.
I would suggest getting there early, I got there at about 7:30am and there was about a 20 minute wait.
I saw a lot of people bring their own boxes, but I just grabbed one while I was there.
I’m going to have soooooo many recipes to look up!
Also, the people working the vegetable checks and everything are wry sweet, if you aren’t sure what something is or what to cook with it… Just ask! They give great advice.

Can’t beat the deal! $ 10 for 60 lbs plus of veggies (sometimes even organic) and occasional fruits. It is kind of a hit or miss with the veggies. Some weeks they aren’t the freshest but that said, I have always found it worth the trip, even if we can’t eat it all, I usually send half to work with my fiancé and his coworkers seem to love it.
Today was a special treat as they had mini seedless watermelons, honey dew melons, bell peppers, beautiful sweet red peppers, 2 types of tomatoes, banana squash, and tomatillos which are awesome for salsa.
We will go thru the melons in a week all by ourselves I am sure as we love melon in our nutriblasts every morning.
Summer hours start at 7am, I would highly recommend going early so you don’t have to fight the crowds and get first pick.
Even if you don’t think you could go thru all that produce (we usually don’t) you will get your monies worth and surprise a friend or neighbor on top of it!

MOM is such a FABULOUS idea. I like to eat lots of veggies with my family, put my juicer to good use, and do good, all at the same time. For $ 10 donation, MOM helps me accomplish all the above.
My Chinese parents are huge consumers of fresh vegetables. They were so fascinated by the concept of MOM that we went to 3 locations during their 1-​month stay, even though the choices were pretty much the same. The quality of the veggies, however, can vary greatly from week to week. One week, our veggies were overripe and borderlined going bad, but we handled them by cutting off the bad parts and freezing them immediately afterwards. But this Saturday, we got beautiful, perfectly fresh veggies: organic English cucumber, red and yellow peppers, squash, tomatoes, eggplants, and grapefruits. The veggies are so beautiful and I can give them out to our friends as gifts.
Thank you MOM for teaching us how NOT to waste.

Who could possibly complain about this? Eating healthy can actually be expensive. We load up and give some to friends and family.

My favorite place 10 bucks for lbs and lbs and lbs and lbs of veggies+fruits!!! Make sure to get there early, you pay 10 dollars and get in a buffet style line. you are allowed to take a certain ammount of whatever produces they allow. =) Supports a great cause… keep in mind you can’t select your own produce here… and the produce here is very over-​ripe, so make sure to get home and start planning+cooking your meals for the rest of the week!

This isn’t a regular farmers market. It is some not for profit outfit.
The long and the short of it is you get a crap load of veggies and occasionally some fruits for $ 10 (cash)
The bad: The selection sucks. It is quite simply the stuff from Nogales that isn’t selling. which means it is always going to be mexican conventionally farmed produce that isn’t up to snuff to be sold/​shipped. I have many times seen moldy veggies at these places, so pay attention to what you are grabbing. likewise be prepared to compost or throw away ¹⁄₃ to ½ of what you got before the next weeks event occurs. Also anything that they have that doesn’t suck they will put limits on. I hope you like squash as they always seem to have it.
and get there early as well the best stuff is gone by 9 am.
The Good: you get a lot of veggies cheap.
Bottom line: I’m there every week, But I don’t look forward to it, in fact I kind of dread it. But I know with $ 20 between this and ramen you won’t starve.
ALSO: they are usually at a church, school, some public type place. always in a parking lot, and there will always be a semi truck there. so If you don’t know where you are going like for that type of place then start looking for the semi truck

How can you go wrong with a beneficial program like this?
For a $ 10 contribution you can haul away up to 60 pounds of produce. If you go to the I-​17/​Rose Garden Ln location there may be additional items besides just produce.
I have brought home things to share with family and friends, items that can be canned/​frozen, things for the beastlies (Danes), as well as treats for my hens and even the waste gets gobbled up by my compost pile and the invasive hens.
Liking this program.
Wish it was year round in our area so I wouldn’t have to drive across town to participate.

The 3000 Club is a charitable organization with a program called Market on the Move.
Distribution sites all over town (predominantly schools and churches) on Saturday mornings. A $ 10 donation will yield up to 60 lbs of produce!
I heard they are winding down for the summer — instead of being all over town, it will be in the air conditioned warehouse near I-​17 and Rose Garden Lane. There’s still a couple weeks of regular distribution — and I look forward to them getting back out this fall! See website for schedule and distribution locations.
I went to the downtown market Saturday morning. Handed over my $ 10, and was told to help myself to cases of Nestle bottled water.
The offerings at this week’s market included melon, acorn and banana squash, zucchini, cucumber, green and yellow peppers and grape tomatoes. I didn’t take close to the 60 pounds I could have — and still have way more than enough for my house — so my coworkers get lucky with produce this week!
Love what they’re doing here — and, as I have never had acorn squash before, love the fact I am pushing out of my culinary comfort zone and allowing myself the opportunity to learn some new kitchen tricks!

Market on the Move is a wonderful project. It has launched my career as a water-​bath canner! Now the produce isn’t ALWAYS fresh enough to can, but the not knowing what you’re gonna get is part of the adventure.

Bang for your buck! More for your moola! How much can I pile in this box for one Hamilton! OK, I’ll stop.
Market on the Move has to be one of the very best values in Tucson. My daughter and I tracked down the NW side location for the ²⁄₁₆ event and headed to the Vision church location off Twin Peaks and I-​10 around 8AM. Wow. We should have planned to arrive at 7:00 or 7:30. We were greeted by a very long line of other healthy value hunters. LONG line. Parked the car and brought a laundry basket along with us and got in line.
The line brings you to a table where you pay your $ 10 and then get in to one of the distribution lines which move pretty quickly. On this particular morning we got eggplants, yellow squash, Mexican grey squash, grapefruit, English cucumbers, vine ripened tomatoes, roma tomatoes, oranges, butternut squash and the biggest avocados I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately they had run out of the yellow/​red/​orange bell peppers by the time we got to the distribution.
This produce distribution takes place in various locations all over Tucson and has got to be one of the best values. The produce is fresh, ripe and ready to be eaten. They are not giving you spoiled, overripe food. The volunteers from Vision church were well organized, helpful and friendly.
We weighed and valued our produce when we got home. For $ 10 we walked away with 70 pounds of produce (could have taken more or less if we wanted) that we valued at $ 92. Now that’s a gonga!

What a cool idea! For a ten dollar donation, you can get up to 60 pounds of fresh produce! Yes, SIXTY POUNDS! Just make sure you get there EARLY, like as soon as they’re open, if you want to get a variety of fruits/​veggies. We arrived a little after 9 am (they opened at 8) and all that was left was tomatoes and corn.

Market on the Move (MOM) is a 3000 club project started by Ester Wavey. Market on the Move works with the Borderlands Food Bank to rescue about 30 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables EVERY YEAR! How do they do it? They bring over $ 45,000,000 worth of produce to local churches once a month, usually the first Saturday or Sunday. And get this… you get 60 POUNDS of produce for a donation of ten dollars! Honeydew, baby watermelon, cucumbers, squash, green beans, zucchini, two kinds of tomatoes all fresh for you in a farmer’s market atmosphere… Instead of the food going to waste, they bring it to the community. Save the Food. Feed the Hungry. Neighbors Helping Neighbors. Those are their mottoes. Not only do they distribute fresh produce, they provide free health screens, diabetes and cancer prevention and educational classes. They help feed more than 460,000 families in need. And distribute fresh produce to more than 300 food banks.
I was heading home from the Color Vibe 5k when I saw the sign «60 lbs of produce, $ 10»…sharp turn right and we were at Saguaro Canyon Church on Old Spanish Trail, which holds their MOM market the first Saturday of the month November-​May. The market is in Phoenix, Tucson, Mesa, Chandler, Goodyear, Glendale. Check the 3000 club’s calendar for specific dates. I think there is one somewhere in AZ just about every Saturday… It’s a juicer’s dream come true! These churches host in Tucson:
*Emmanuel Baptist Church
*Friends In Deed
*Most Holy Trinity Church
*Mount Zion Lutheran Church
*Northminister Presbyterian Church
*Pima Community College
*Saguaro Canyon Church
*Santa Catalina Catholic Church
*St. Ambrose Parish
*St. Cyril Parish
*St. Pius X Catholic Church
*Sunnyside High School
*Tucson Fellowship Bible Church
*Tucson Medical Hospital
*TUSD Pueblo Magnet High School
*Vision Church
Thank you 3000 Club and Ester! FYI– this is a nonprofit charitable organization with a 501 (c)3 status… so help support this amazing, generous charitable group!!!