July 2, 2025

Big bins in small towns

Bulk food gets hot in rural Tennessee

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Tare Bulk Foods/ Photos by Mark Blankenship
Tare Bulk Foods/ Photos by Mark Blankenship
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By Mark Blankenship
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By Mark Blankenship

In early April 2021, Amelia Wilson had a revelation. 

She was standing in a bowling alley parking lot in Dickson, Tennessee, a community west of Nashville with about 17,000 people. Like everyone around her, she was waiting for delivery from a company that makes monthly drops of organic food.

 
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