WASHINGTON — There’s a new meal kit in town, and this one really is in town.
The meal kits come from “From the Farmer,” a company that’s been delivering local produce in the Washington area to customers for seven years. The meal kits are all local ingredients.
And, unlike most meal kits, From the Farmer actually gives some of the cooking a little jump start.
“We wanted to make sure that we could put dinner on the table in 30 minutes or less, and if that meant that we had to marinate the meat or make the great tomato sauce or whatever the other contributing factors of the meal are, we wanted to be able to do that,” Nick Phelps, co-founder of From the Farmer, told WTOP.
From the Farmer delivers from Manassas, Virginia to Baltimore, and because the company is making the deliveries itself, not shipping long distances, there is not as much packaging to throw away.
“We are able to cut down on the amount of packaging mainly because we’re not worried about shipping these things. Our packaging is significantly less, and we’re able to re-use some of the packaging if the customers do return it,” Phelps said.
The meal kits, which From the Farmer calls its “Supper Club,” build on the company’s lessons from sourcing and delivering millions of pounds of local food and serving 10,000 customers since its founding.
Recipes are curated by chef Robert Wood, a D.C.-area chef to athletes and sports teams in the Washington region, and chef Doug Singer of Singer’s Significant Meats, a Culinary Institute of America trained chef who works with some of the nation’s top restaurants.
The seasonal Supper Club kit ingredients change weekly.
Kit details are at From the Farmer’s website.
