103 | Improving accessibility to healthy food with Ashley Tyrner of Farmbox Direct
Welcome to episode 103 of The Optimal Body Podcast
Improving accessibility to healthy food with Ashley Tyrner of Farmbox Direct
Feel unsatisfied with the quality of produce in your nearest grocery store? Find grocery shopping a burden due to distance or incompatibility? Ashley highlights the origin of her passions for this company and emphasizes the connections between Farmbox Direct, and senior and pregnancy health care programs. Farmbox Direct serves to deliver groceries and contributes to advocating the importance of consuming whole food ingredients, sharing articles, delivering crosswords for senior populations to engage in, and providing recipes via an in-door Registered Dietitian. She empathizes with the time constraints as a Mom but truly values the importance of involving children in cooking. As the founder of Harlow’s harvest, Farmbox Direct now accommodates children, teaching them to cook in a healthy way through family activities. Coming 2022, Farmbox Direct’s partnership with Harlow’s Harvest aims to launch three kits for three different populations, enhancing the accessibility of produce. Finally, Ashley explains how to choose your best box, and the differences between their organic and natural boxes, adhering to different financial circumstances. Food is medicine. Rediscover grocery shopping with Ashley Tyrner as she talks into Farmbox Direct’s mission of increasing accessibility of quality produce.
What you will learn in this interview with Ashley Tyrner:
3:21 – Where Ashley’s passion comes from.
4:08 – The issue of accessibility.
7:07 – Fast food popularization.
9:24 – Education about whole foods.
11:10 – Forms of education clients receive.
13:35 – Health plans & insurance.
16:37 – Children in the kitchen.
19:26 – Harlow’s Harvest.
22:30 – Farmbox feedback, client feedback.
24:25 – Personalization and Organic vs Natural Box.
28:14 – Ashley’s last takeaway.
30:28 – Learn more about Ashley.
About Ashley Tyrner:
Ashley Tyrner is a health & food-policy advocate, and the founder & CEO of Farmbox Direct, FarmboxRx, and Harlow’s Harvest. Having been a single mother on food stamps, Ashley has built Farmbox Direct with the goal of helping to eradicate the food desert problem that America faces. With her passion and mission of giving people access to healthy foods, Ashley works endlessly to disrupt the food policy space. In her most recent efforts to enter the healthcare space, Ashley launched the first “Food as Medicine” initiative FarmboxRx. This division of Farmbox Direct was created to partner up with health insurance plans by offering members a box of fresh fruits and vegetables as a means to help combat the biggest health-related social need–food. In January 2020, FarmboxRx launched partnerships with several healthcare plans and is expected to grow significantly over the next few years.
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