Fresh food comes to Wantagh

A Wantagh business is offering a new way to get fresh food into your home. Wantagh Woods Chiropractic and Wellness is the local delivery site for Farmigo, an online grocery store that gets its products directly from area farmers.

Every Wednesday, the food is delivered to the office of Dr. Barbara Rosinsky and Dr. Suzanne Plotnick at the corner of Wantagh and DeMott avenues. Customers can then pick up their items.

Farmigo, playing off “amigo,” the Spanish word for friend, is meant to remind customers that farmers are their friends. All food sold on the site is unprocessed, and most of it is organic.

While the site is up seven days a week, it is open Thursday through Sunday for orders. The food is then gathered from local producers, organized at Farmigo’s headquarters in Brooklyn, and sent out to local distribution sites, including Wantagh. “Everything is really fresh,” Rosinsky said. “”You’re supporting the environment, and you’re supporting your own health at the same time.”

Wantagh’s “community” of Farmigo customers is more than two dozen strong since Rosinsky’s office opened as a distribution site in April. She is hoping to get the word out and see more people participate. While many of the customers are her patients, her site is open to anyone in the area.

Farmigo’s site includes “What’s New” items every week, often listing different fruits and vegetables as they come into season. Customers can also order dairy products, baked goods, meat and seafood.

“Everybody orders something different,” Rosinsky said, adding that she is particularly fond of the gluten free brownies and grass-fed milk.

Rosinsky signed on with Farmigo at the urging of one of her patients, Mary Redler, of Wantagh. Redler orders every week and loves the yogurts, which she says are not as sweet as the commercial brands and do not contain artificial ingredients.

Redler said that she has yet to experience the full benefits of Farmigo, as many items have yet to come into season. She is looking to try out many of the fruits and vegetables that will soon be available.

“I like the idea of supporting local farmers,” Redler said. “If you’re not willing to support the local farmers, it’s going to all end up being housing developments and strip malls.”