For Participants

Recipes and information about healthy eating: https://eatfresh.org/find-a-recipe

How to store and cook with different fruits and vegetables: https://ucsdcommunityhealth.org/work/eat-ca/

• This website also lists the fruits and vegetables that are in season each month. You can save money by buying fruits and vegetables that are in season.

Foodshed offers recipe ideas, workshops, and cooking classes. Visit the Foodshed Farm Hub, located at 3340 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego, CA 92105, Tuesday through Friday, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, or Saturday, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, or email foodshedlogistics@gmail.com for more information.

The University of California San Diego is expanding the existing ¡Más Fresco! More Fresh Nutrition Incentive program. The expanded program, known as ¡Más Fresco! Plus, provides community members who are experiencing health disparities, including food insecurity and diet-related chronic disease, with a box of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, from a local San Diego farm, delivered to their home.

If you enrolled before September 1, 2023, you will receive deliveries about twice a month for 12 months until you receive 24 deliveries total. This 12-month program has reached capacity and is closed.

If you enrolled after September 1, 2023, you will receive deliveries weekly for about 6 months until you receive 24 deliveries total.

To reach out to community members across San Diego County, we are partnering with community-based organizations to help us promote ¡Más Fresco! Plus.

This program is part of a University of California San Diego research study that aims to learn how nutrition incentives provided through ¡Más Fresco! Plus affect access to healthy foods, and how they help people consume more fruits and vegetables for better health.

The goal of ¡Más Fresco! Plus is to increase access to and consumption of healthy foods, including fresh fruits and vegetables, among community members who are experiencing health disparities, including food insecurity and diet-related chronic disease, while at the same time improving nutrition and health status among program participants.

• 18 years of age or older
• Referred by a San Diego County community-based organization that has determined that you could benefit from increased access to and consumption of healthy foods, including fruits and vegetables
• One participant per household
• Live in San Diego County
• Have not previously participated in the ¡Más Fresco! Plus program

¡Más Fresco! Plus is different from the existing ¡Más Fresco! More Fresh Nutrition Incentive program in that it does not require you to be enrolled in CalFresh in order to receive benefits.

1. Receive a referral for enrollment from a San Diego County community-based organization. 
2. Enroll online at www.masfrescoplusproduce.org. 
3. If you need assistance with enrolling online, please contact ¡Más Fresco! Plus at 888-315-6602 or by email at masfrescoplus@health.ucsd.edu, and a ¡Más Fresco! Plus staff member will help you enroll in the program. 
4. Complete the online enrollment process.
5. Once you complete the online enrollment process, you will be contacted to schedule your delivery. A box of farm fresh fruits and vegetables, from a local San Diego farm, will be delivered to your home.

If you enrolled before September 1, 2023, you will receive deliveries about twice a month for 12 months until you receive 24 deliveries total. This 12-month program has reached capacity and is closed.

If you enrolled after September 1, 2023, you will receive deliveries weekly for about 6 months until you receive 24 deliveries total.

The funding available for this program enables us to provide benefits to a certain number of community members at a time. Once we reach the maximum number of participants, all funding for this benefit will have been fully allocated and no additional enrollments will be accepted. If you should have any questions about ¡Más Fresco! Plus, please contact us at 888-315-6602 or by email at masfrescoplus@health.ucsd.edu.

Once you complete the online enrollment process, you will be contacted to schedule your delivery. A box of farm- fresh fruits and vegetables, from a local San Diego farm, will be delivered to your home.

If you enrolled before September 1, 2023, you will receive deliveries about twice a month for 12 months until you receive 24 deliveries total. This 12-month program has reached capacity and is closed.

If you enrolled after September 1, 2023, you will receive deliveries weekly for about 6 months until you receive 24 deliveries total.

Additionally, you may have the opportunity to participate in two surveys – one during enrollment and a follow-up survey 3-months following enrollment. These surveys will help us better understand how ¡Más Fresco! Plus may help participants access and eat healthy foods, including fruits and vegetables, to improve health. Each survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. Participation in the surveys is voluntary.

To make sure that your farm-fresh produce box arrives safely to your front door, please provide any special delivery instructions in the ¡Más Fresco! Plus online enrollment form. For example, if your address has a locked gate that requires an access code, or if you have any other special delivery instructions, please be sure to provide that information when you enroll in the ¡Más Fresco! Plus program.

Once you enroll in the program, Foodshed will let you know the delivery schedule for your farm-fresh produce box. If you have any questions about your farm-fresh produce box, including any questions about the delivery of your produce box, please contact Foodshed at 619-821-8222.

Each week, Foodshed gathers fruits and vegetables from small farms across San Diego County.  That means the items you receive will change with the seasons. For example, tomatoes grow in the warm season and carrots grow in the cold season. You also may receive an item you are not familiar with eating. This is your chance to get creative and try something new!  Foodshed offers recipe ideas, workshops, and cooking classes. Visit the Foodshed Farm Hub, located at 3340 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego, CA 92105 Tuesday through Friday, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, or Saturday, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm, or email foodshedlogistics@gmail.com to get more information.

Some of the produce you receive will be certified organic. Some of the produce will come from small farms that are not certified. However, 100% of the produce in your farm-fresh produce box will be pesticide and herbicide-free and grown using sustainable, earth-friendly farming methods.

If you did not receive your farm-fresh produce box, please contact Foodshed at 619-821-2222 to arrange to pick up a replacement farm-fresh produce box directly from Foodshed Farm Hub. Foodshed is located at 3340 Fairmount Avenue, San Diego, CA 92105. Foodshed hours of operation are Tuesday through Friday, from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm, and Saturday, from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.