A boost of inspiration
Once in a while we receive some great feedback from a client/resident that really reveals the difference that People’s Grocery is making. The following is a letter we received in December from Pamela Deering, who is a West Oakland resident and a Grub Box customer. Her letter was very uplifting for our staff and boosted our inspiration. I hope you find this letter as inspiring as we did…………….
“Dear Brahm and every single one of you at Peoples’ Grocery,
My roommate started buying grub boxes in the summer of this year, after she asked me if I thought it was a good idea. I said, hell yes! I do most of our cooking, and it’s always sad how tasteless and empty the grocery store produce is. When I was growing up, my family grew our own veggies & fruits, so I knew what I was missing.
Week after week, she started coming home with the most beautiful stuff. You probably think it’s silly, but I’m one of those people who gets all excited when I cut open a cabbage, or get a wild-looking eggplant. I have to run & show everybody in the house — “Look, isn’t this cool?”
Anyway, I cannot really express to you how much joy and satisfaction it brings us every time we sit down to a delicious meal full of absolutely delicious and beautiful wholesome things, organically grown, that we would NEVER have been able to afford otherwise. It means a lot to us to know that our produce is grown in soil that is not depleted and stripped, and that our food will actually nourish us like it’s supposed to.
When you’re in a low-income bracket, you get used to doing without a lot of little things that may not be so little to you. Nice food is one of the most basic, and the saddest to go without for us and many other people. So if you ever wonder how much what you do affects people’s lives, I want to let you know that it really does.
Thank you, and happy winter holidays to you all.
Sincerely, Pamela Deering and roommates”
