Field to Family’s Online Market Returns Weekly for the Season

Ordering opens April 20 with first pick up April 24, 2025

Fifth Year of Field to Family’s Online Market Launches with a Market Kick-off Event on April 24 to celebrate the beginning of the growing season with educational vendors & giveaways

Field to Family will launch its 2025 weekly Online Market with an in-person Market Kick-off event. 

Ordering for the season begins on Sunday April 20th at 5pm and closes at noon on Tuesday April 22nd for pick up on April 24, 2025 from 3:30-6:00 p.m. and weekly thereafter. Community members can choose from diverse local foods, plant starts, farm products and local value-added products from 30+ local producers by going to orders.fieldtofamily.org to register, login and create orders. 

The season’s first distribution will include an open house event celebrating local food, farmers, and community. Stop by our warehouse and office on Thursday, April 24th anytime from 4:30-6:00 PM for the Market Kick-off, meet our team, visit our vendors and learn more about how we connect fresh, locally grown food to families in our community through our online market. This family-friendly event will feature interactive activities for kids, fun educational booths about healthy food and where food comes from, and local farmers sharing their knowledge. Plus, for one day only, customers will have the chance to add select products to their order in person.

“Most of our producer partners have been deeply affected by the recent announcements of the USDA local food program cuts.“ said Michelle Kenyon, Executive Director, Field to Family.  “More than ever before, this is the time to choose local food. Producers were informed that these programs would continue back in October 2024 and have been preparing ever since with infrastructure improvements, seed and other supply purchases to ensure that they would meet the demand. With the sudden and unexpected cancellation of those programs, farmers will have a gap to fill and our online market is one way the community can show support.” 

Online ordering opens every Sunday at 5 PM, continuing through noon on Tuesdays for Thursday pickup at the Field to Family warehouse in the South District, along the mural on the Pepperwood Plaza building. Those picking up orders Thursdays are instructed to slowly enter the alley along Broadway St. heading north and drive along the backside of the building to the garage door in the blue section of the mural, exiting onto Cross Park Road.    

Field to Family offers the ability for community members to choose local in multiple languages. Choose fresh & local foods from farmers in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic or Swahili. Field to Family also continues to accept SNAP as a form of payment, as well as Double Up Food Bucks. Starting this season, the Double Up Food Bucks incentive has increased from a $10 match, to $15. Qualifying users may redeem $15 per week on fresh fruits and veggies when they spend $15 on produce. 

As the growing season begins, community members can expect plant starts, eggs, baked goods, mushrooms, radishes, lettuce, spring onions and more seasonal crops added as they become available. Field to Family partners with an expanding list of producers and products weekly where individuals and households are sure to find something to delight their taste buds. 

As a local food hub and market, Field to Family strives to connect households and institutions to foods grown in our region. In 2024, Field to Family partnered with 100 local producers and delivered local food from 44 school districts, 24 food access sites and a growing list of other food service businesses and institutions wholesale local foods year-round, with the Online Market running from Earth Day to Winter Solstice and monthly in winter months.

More about Field to Family: Field to Family is an Iowa City based nonprofit that increases access to healthy and local foods. We operate a comprehensive regional food hub & market, powered by growers & consumers who share a purpose to create a diverse, abundant, sustainable food system. Our mission is to ensure everyone across Johnson County and Eastern Iowa can eat fresh food with the seasons.

What Makes Field to Family a Food Hub? As a food hub, Field to Family’s goal is to increase access to local foods & food system education in our region through strong partnerships with producers & institutions. Our icon represents Field to Family’s primary focus areas: Comprehensive Regional Food Hub, Producer Partnerships & Commitment to Access & Education. 

orders.fieldtofamily.org; Warehouse & Office Phone: (319) 855-2649; info@fieldtofamily.org 

Iowa City-based non-profit is on a mission to provide increased access to healthy, local food for people in Johnson County and Eastern Iowa

November 1st, 2023 – Nestled in Iowa City’s Southside Market alongside fellow non-profit leaders, Table to Table and CommUnity, sits Field to Family, a growing organization that is having an impact well beyond its understated office space.

It’s here where Executive Director Michelle Kenyon and her staff run a non-profit that is on a mission to increase access to and education around healthy and local food.

“Many people don’t realize it when they drive by, but we are operating a comprehensive regional food hub and online market,” Kenyon said. “It’s our passion, and we believe it’s a gamechanger for Johnson County and Eastern Iowa.” Read more.

Update: This event is sold out. Join us for a Harvest Dinner on November 1st at Wilson’s Ciderhouse and Venue. Celebrate the season’s bounty with a meal sourced with local foods grown by skilled and dedicated local producers and prepared by an award winning chef Matt Steigerwald and his trusted team of culinary professionals. Tickets can be purchased here until 10/26 or when sold out. The menu is posted and includes a vegan option. For those who can’t attend, you can provide a donation at the ticket link as well as our website. The event features a silent auction with proceeds going to Field to Family’s work to operate a local food hub and market, expand access to local foods and provide food system education.

Purchase Tickets

Choose fresh & local foods from farmers & market vendors through Field to Family’s online platform in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic or Swahili. 

Learn more here. 

After three years of growth, Field to Family is playing a pivotal role in the growth of the supply and demand of local foods in Iowa through strong partnerships with local farmers, schools, other key state, public institutions. New USDA funding streams that are meant to empower community food systems are directed towards food hubs, including Field to Family, with funds provided to increase local for school lunch, reduce food insecurity and support systematically disadvantaged farmers.  Through strong relationships with local farmers, food hubs offer an alternative to distributors that rely on cheap labor, transnational distribution, food waste, high soil inputs and environmental issues that negatively impact our water, soil and air. Read More: Click Learn More. 

Field to Family moved their warehouse and operations at the end of last year into a larger space, allowing the organization to substantially grow its food storage capacity! We couldn’t have done this without the help from ACT, Lifeson Moving, Russ Duccini from CommUnity! Lifeson Moving helped us move out of our Capitol Street space as well as the temporary space Johnson County allowed us to use on Clinton Street. ACT provided us with office furniture, cabinets, carpet, meeting room tables and a large media cart! We can’t wait to show off our new digs, share more about our work- successes, challenges, reconnect with old friends and partners + meet all of you!

Join us on Monday, September 26 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM at our office and warehouse at 1051 US HWY 6, Iowa City, IA 52240. We are located in Pepperwood Plaza in the South District of Iowa City!

 Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig awarded Field to Family a 2022 Ag Leadership Award. During his announcement, he says that “Over the 10 years of the Iowa Agriculture Leader Awards, we have recognized people and organizations that are making a difference for our farmers and rural communities,” said Secretary Naig. “I am proud to continue that tradition this year by recognizing outstanding leaders who champion conservation, build new markets for Iowa products and engage the next generation of agriculture leaders.” 

Iowa City-based non-profit is on a mission to provide increased access to healthy, local food for people in Johnson County and Eastern Iowa

November 1st, 2023 – Nestled in Iowa City’s Southside Market alongside fellow non-profit leaders, Table to Table and CommUnity, sits Field to Family, a growing organization that is having an impact well beyond its understated office space.

It’s here where Executive Director Michelle Kenyon and her staff run a non-profit that is on a mission to increase access to and education around healthy and local food.

“Many people don’t realize it when they drive by, but we are operating a comprehensive regional food hub and online market,” Kenyon said. “It’s our passion, and we believe it’s a gamechanger for Johnson County and Eastern Iowa.” Read more.

Update: This event is sold out. Join us for a Harvest Dinner on November 1st at Wilson’s Ciderhouse and Venue. Celebrate the season’s bounty with a meal sourced with local foods grown by skilled and dedicated local producers and prepared by an award winning chef Matt Steigerwald and his trusted team of culinary professionals. Tickets can be purchased here until 10/26 or when sold out. The menu is posted and includes a vegan option. For those who can’t attend, you can provide a donation at the ticket link as well as our website. The event features a silent auction with proceeds going to Field to Family’s work to operate a local food hub and market, expand access to local foods and provide food system education.

Purchase Tickets

Choose fresh & local foods from farmers & market vendors through Field to Family’s online platform in English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic or Swahili. 

Learn more here. 

After three years of growth, Field to Family is playing a pivotal role in the growth of the supply and demand of local foods in Iowa through strong partnerships with local farmers, schools, other key state, public institutions. New USDA funding streams that are meant to empower community food systems are directed towards food hubs, including Field to Family, with funds provided to increase local for school lunch, reduce food insecurity and support systematically disadvantaged farmers.  Through strong relationships with local farmers, food hubs offer an alternative to distributors that rely on cheap labor, transnational distribution, food waste, high soil inputs and environmental issues that negatively impact our water, soil and air. Read More: Click Learn More. 

Field to Family moved their warehouse and operations at the end of last year into a larger space, allowing the organization to substantially grow its food storage capacity! We couldn’t have done this without the help from ACT, Lifeson Moving, Russ Duccini from CommUnity! Lifeson Moving helped us move out of our Capitol Street space as well as the temporary space Johnson County allowed us to use on Clinton Street. ACT provided us with office furniture, cabinets, carpet, meeting room tables and a large media cart! We can’t wait to show off our new digs, share more about our work- successes, challenges, reconnect with old friends and partners + meet all of you!

Join us on Monday, September 26 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM at our office and warehouse at 1051 US HWY 6, Iowa City, IA 52240. We are located in Pepperwood Plaza in the South District of Iowa City!

 Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig awarded Field to Family a 2022 Ag Leadership Award. During his announcement, he says that “Over the 10 years of the Iowa Agriculture Leader Awards, we have recognized people and organizations that are making a difference for our farmers and rural communities,” said Secretary Naig. “I am proud to continue that tradition this year by recognizing outstanding leaders who champion conservation, build new markets for Iowa products and engage the next generation of agriculture leaders.”