Nick Leturgey, right, project manager with the Community Partnership and volunteer Jared Cypher show what will be a sales window on a bus that will become a mobile farmers market for the organization. Seb Foltz/Butler Eagle 05/17/22

PARKER — A bus that once helped people with disabilities get around is being retrofitted to help people have fresh food.

The Produce Cart, when it’s unveiled later this summer by the Community Partnership Inc. of Butler, will deliver fresh produce and meats from county farms to people who have difficulty accessing those foods.

Community Partnership staff is in the process of converting a used bus it bought from the county for $4,500 in April after it was removed from service from Butler Area Rural Transit for use as the Produce Cart.

Project manager Nick Leturgey said he likes the Produce Cart name so much he wanted to protect it through a patent or copyright. His idea didn’t go far due the cost and time of those legal processes, but the project is underway.

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