The long warm days and consistent sunshine only mean one thing for local farms, the harvest is coming online, literally! Our local food service partner Headwater Food Hub connects area institutions and restaurants with the best of what’s local for the past four years. By working directly with farmers and listing their wares online for Pandion GPO customers to order direct to them, the Headwater partnership helps connect those within Pandion to top quality, sustainable and healthy ingredients.
Headwater Food Hub is a turn-key solution for tapping into the farm-to-table movement. Take your pick from a full line of dairy, meats, produce, frozen, and minimally processed foods depending on your food service needs. You can easily procure cost neutral, farmers market quality foods backed up with the local story. Every item has farm information for you to highlight to your customers and Headwater Food Hub’s marketing team can customize point of sale materials and provide you with free value chain analytics reporting to make your sustainable purchasing initiatives shine.
“With Headwater Food Hub we were finally able to proudly advertise that we use locally sourced items. Over the past year we've purchased just about every different New York grown vegetable and fruit that Headwater Food Hub has offered. Headwater Food Hub also has an impressive catalog of local cheeses. That were especially popular at several our catered events this past year. We're excited to continue our partnership through 2018 and beyond,” said Joseph Tyrpa, Director of Food and Nutrition Services at Monroe Community Hospital.
Headwater Food Hub works with over 100 suppliers from the Adirondacks to the Finger Lakes to create a year-round New York food service supply chain for Pandion GPO customers. Their newly renovated food distribution center in Ontario, NY is constantly humming with farmer drop offs, aggregation, quality control and value added processes that put a real flag in the ground for building more sustainable food systems around our communities.
Book a Food Hub tour or simply take 30 minutes to have a focused conversation of what incorporating local into your food service selection can look like for your culinary team! Reach out to Phil at phil@headwaterfoodhub.com or call 585.313.7670 to get started today and reference contract # 9520-07.
And be sure to learn more about Pandion’s complete portfolio of sustainable products, which includes GPO contracts for food, office supplies, energy, and janitorial products.