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It's been a year since Bruce Bagelman opened Green Spot Market & Fuels at Buckner and Northcliff, and it has taken off. The gas/biofuel station has what is probably the only convenience store in the city where you can find Austinuts, Green & Black's organic chocolate bars, Honest Tea and Lucky Layla Farms yogurt and cheese.
Now Bagelman (don't you love his name?) is taking it up a notch with the Green Spot Produce Club. This, with an eye to eventually developing a farmers market for the White Rock area. That's a good idea, because between the Dallas Farmers Market downtown and Eden's Organic Garden Center in Balch Springs, there is nothing. Nada. Unless you count the new Lakewood Whole Foods Market.
The Produce Club "is an incentive to buy produce from us," says Bagelman. Fresh produce - he emphasizes organic and, when possible, local - is another quirky feature of the Green Spot. Brisk turnover is the key to keeping it fresh.
Folks pay $25 to join the club and get a list of perks, from a 10 percent discount on all produce to a recipe exchange program. Some of the money will also be plowed back into the community via school and community gardens, he says.
But the club is also something of a working group/incubator for developing the White Rock Farmers Market, starting with getting a few local producers in on a specific day, which has yet to be determined. Already the club has 40 to 50 members, Bagelman says, and already the ideas are flowing.
"It's definitely aspirational," says Bagelman. "It's not going to happen overnight."
He thinks he has hit nerve, though. "People are interested in local," he says. "It's community-oriented. It's something they can wrap their arms around. I think there is a lot of interest in having a [farmers] market in this part of town."
Sign up for the produce club at produceclub@greenspotmarket.com.
Bagelman says he's also expanding the Green Spot kitchen so that he can make breakfast tacos and sandwiches on-site, as well as offer more breakfast and lunch items. He's hoping to finish by the end of April. The station's hours are 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday.
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I believe there is a farmers market opening up at Ross and Henderson
Thanks for this Kim -- great business he's got going there thus far!