Food in Transit program returns to Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS — Meals in Transit is again for its fifth yr in Downtown Indianapolis — and this yr, there is a new choice to make it extra reasonably priced for households.

Each Tuesday from 2-5 p.m., a meals stand stocked with native produce shall be arrange on the Julia M. Carson Transit Heart, positioned at 201 E. Washington Avenue.

Money, SNAP, EBT, credit score and debit are all accepted types of cost on the farmstand. This yr, this system is providing a Pay What You Can Possibility, and if households cannot afford to pay, they’ll nonetheless get not less than two gadgets from that day’s choice for free of charge.

“At Rising Locations Indy, we now have labored exhausting to make sure that everybody has entry to domestically grown contemporary meals as a result of merely put, it is a human proper,” government director Victoria Beaty stated.

Meals in Transit is a group partnership between IndyGo, Rising Locations Indy and Mayor Joe Hogsett.

“Usually transit will get minimized to individuals on buses, however we’re a lot extra than simply the bus,” IndyGo CEO Inez Evans stated. “We will also be a hub of financial alternatives that may improve lives in a wide range of methods.”

Wellness in Transit, which presents free healthcare no matter insurance coverage standing, additionally occurs every Tuesday from 3-5 p.m.