Lack of produce drives mobile grocery project

It may be easy to find a Primanti Brother’s sandwich in Pittsburgh, but it is difficult in some areas to find fresh green beans and apples.

It is a problem that four graduate students plan to tackle with a set of wheels and an array of healthy produce. The group, Farm Truck Foods, is creating a mobile grocery store that will deliver food to Pittsburgh’s low-income neighborhoods. By spring of next year, Farm Truck Foods hopes to hit the road with a bus that sells fruits, vegetables and meat wherever there is a need to irrigate Pittsburgh’s “food deserts.”