PARRAMORE, Fla. \u2013 A mobile food market serving one of Orlando\u2019s most vulnerable communities is feeling the pinch\u2014not just from rising food costs, but from soaring gas prices that keep their operation moving. In Parramore, where access to fresh, affordable healthy food is already limited, even a small price hike could have a big impact. <\/p>\n
Reduced prices for cucumbers, tomatoes, and other produce from Fresh Stop Mobile Food Market may be going up soon. <\/p>\n
\u201cHow much longer do you have before you make the change?\u201d a question was posed. \u201cI\u2019d say about a week,\u201d said Glen Providence, executive director of Fresh Stop Mobile Food Market.<\/p>\n
Providence said the potential change is driven by soaring gas prices. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe unfortunate part is that it was so sudden. Literally, those gas prices jumped overnight,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The nonprofit said those prices have doubled the cost of gas for weekly trips to Plant City to collect product, and it\u2019s also impacting other parts of the organization\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur generators operate our refrigeration and the water pumps, so on and so forth. That generator taps directly into the fuel,\u201d Providence said.<\/p>\n
Providence said Parramore is a food desert, and Fresh Stop has served up to 1,000 people in a single month. He said they also make stops in Osceola and Seminole counties. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou think about what\u2019s going on at the airport and the TSA shutdown\u2014we\u2019re doing our best to help out those who are customers of ours,\u201d Providence said.<\/p>\n
Right now, the nonprofit offers a five-dollar food bag, but Providence said that could shift to an \u00e0 la carte style option. <\/p>\n
He added that prices would still be lower than what customers would typically pay at a grocery store.<\/p>\n
The mobile farmers market is planning to weigh their options over the next few days to plan out scheduling, locations to operate and pricing.<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARRAMORE, Fla. \u2013 A mobile food market serving one of Orlando\u2019s most vulnerable communities is feeling the pinch\u2014not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[8647,575,91939,1718,139,141,140,16427],"class_list":["post-198563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-affordable","tag-food","tag-fresh-stop","tag-nonprofit","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-parramore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}