{"id":443892,"date":"2026-11-01T00:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443892\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T00:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T00:02:09","slug":"parramore-market-opens-to-provide-free-groceries-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443892\/","title":{"rendered":"Parramore Market opens to provide free groceries in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kennedy<\/a>ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n

The Parramore Market, Orlando’s first micro grocery store, has opened this week to provide free groceries to Central Florida families in a neighborhood long affected by food insecurity<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Inside the Parramore Market, the setup mirrors a traditional grocery store. <\/p>\n

“We are looking at a place that has fruits, veggies, meat, dairy, eggs, you know? You have bread,” said Kenneth Hughes, executive director of the Parramore Main Street District. <\/p>\n

Unlike typical grocery stores, the groceries at Parramore Market are free. <\/p>\n

The Desire Foundation transformed its traditional food pantry into a micro grocery store, giving families the freedom to choose what they need. <\/p>\n

“This is what private-public partnership looks like; this is what community looks like,” Hughes said. <\/p>\n

The market is the next step in the foundation’s efforts to address food insecurity, building on Project 814, which distributed hundreds of thousands of pounds of food. <\/p>\n

The idea behind the Parramore Market is to ensure people experiencing food insecurity can shop for themselves and their families with dignity. <\/p>\n

“When we talk about community and then we talk about family empowerment. If the people in a neighborhood actually don’t have access to fresh fruit, fresh food, how do they sustain community? How does your family grow if they’re starving at night?” Hughes said. <\/p>\n

For the Parramore neighborhood, which has long been considered a food desert, this access is significant. <\/p>\n

“For the people of Parramore, this is a goldmine,” Hughes said. <\/p>\n

The market is free to all Central Florida residents. <\/p>\n

Shoppers need to register for a free market card<\/a>, which allows two visits per month. <\/p>\n

The market is also seeking donations<\/a> and volunteers<\/a> to support its operations. <\/p>\n

You can find more information at thedesirefoundationinc.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 The Parramore Market, Orlando’s first micro grocery store, has opened this week to provide free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[35343,502,172963,1089,172964,3535,172961,32359,172966,172962,677,139,141,140,136229,992,172965],"class_list":["post-443892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida-family","tag-community","tag-desire-foundation","tag-family","tag-first-micro-grocery-store","tag-food-insecurity","tag-free-grocery","tag-fruit","tag-goldmine","tag-kenneth-hughes","tag-neighborhood","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-parramore-market","tag-people","tag-traditional-grocery-store"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443892","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=443892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}