Posts Tagged ‘locavore’

Basis’s RR Eco-Transport Program Grows

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

Our partnership with Basis: Good Food to You is nearing the 100 weekly customer mark, which is exciting news for Team RR. Began in earnest in March of this year, the RR delivery program for Basis is adding tomorrow Monday 14 June 2010 a second weekly delivery date to the current Thursday-only schedule accommodate growth as well as the quirks of summer demand; to wit: many New Yorkers skip town during the hazy, lazy weekends of July and August, making Thursday delivery less appealing.

On Thursdays, RR deploys four freight trikes for afternoon Basis delivery. We’re eager to continue on a growth path with Basis and help distribute as much local organic food as we can manage! (Disclaimer: Basis distributes primarily, though not all, local organic foods.) Check them out and tell them RR sent you!

Revolution to the Rescue!

Friday, March 19th, 2010

RR is pleased that private chef Carlin Greenstein had a great experience using rickshaw transport to run birthday-party goodies for 50 kids over to Central Park’s Swedish Cottage. Motor weapons can’t access the cottage on weekends, so delivery by rickshaw was the perfect solution!

In other news, RR is once again making deliveries for The Cleaver Company, one of New York City’s finest purveyors of local, organic and seasonal cuisine.

Have food. Will travel.

Have food. Will travel.

Organic Transport for CSA Supporters

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

On Sunday 2/28 RR hit the road for an appearance at Just Food’s CSA Conference at Columbia U’s Teachers College. Gregg rode a trike uptown, executing a catering delivery to Central Park along the way, and I walked. This year’s scrumptious lorganic treat was the ecological thumbprint cookie (its footprint is so tiny we call it a thumbprint) featuring premium ingredients from Farmer Ground Flour, Queens County Farm Museum, Evans Farmhouse Creamery, Deep Mountain Maple, and Norwich Meadows Farm. Can you tell we love lorganic food almost as much as we heart organic transport?

Gregg guards the goodies

Gregg guards the goodies

Organic Transport + Edible Organic Delights!

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Last Wednesday’s inaugural round of Winter CSA home deliveries went off quite well – as did Team RR’s inaugural experience of CSA participation. Mmm, pickled green tomatoes! Mmm, roasted root vegetables! Mmm, curry cole slaw! You can’t get carrots as sweet as these in any grocery store I know of.
As local and organic as it gets!

As local and organic as it gets!

We admit it: We at RR are freaks for local organic food. We haul food by the trike- and bike-load to midtown Manhattan from the Park Slope Food Coop. We frequent farmers’ markets. We’ve even dipped our toes into the magnificent milk pails of the Traditional Nutritional Guild. When we go on vacation, we scour stores and restaurants for non-toxic treats we wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else. We’d love to use our trike capacity to promote, distribute, and expand the availability of food grown by farmers who enrich – rather than deplete – their land. We dream of the day when freight trains once again frequent the West Side rail yards (just a few blocks from RR). What a wonderful thing it would be to bobtail over to the train station, pick up a trike-sized container of organic upstate produce, pedal it to a local co-op or restaurant, then deadhead back to the depot.

You heard it here first: Trike is the new truck!