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Photo by Renee C. Byer, Sacramento Bee<\/p><\/div>\n

By Sammy Caiola<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFresh fruits and veggies! Fresh fruits and veggies!\u201d<\/p>\n

Like a jovial street merchant from days of old, a bearded Collin Samaan stood on Liestal Row between 17th and 18th streets Friday in Sacramento, vending healthy foods out of his newly christened West Sac Veggie Trike.<\/p>\n

The pedal-powered produce-mobile has three wheels, one in front of Samaan\u2019s bike seat and the other two behind him, supporting the bed of a miniature farm stand. In the back are stashes of persimmons, onions, Apple Hill apples, artisan garlic salts and even kiwis. A cooler holds carrots and rainbow chard, most of it harvested that morning.<\/p>\n

Samaan\u2019s haul comes from a handful of farms in the Sacramento area, including Abbott Organics, where he and wife Aimee Benner grow garlic and greens and where the tricycle lives when not in action. For the past six weeks, he\u2019s brought seasonal goods like apple and pumpkin pies from Bodhaine Ranch in Camino and jars of honey from Arden\u2019s To Bee Young Apiaries to the midtown spot, hoping to catch lunchers passing by.<\/p>\n

During the summer months when days were longer, Samaan had been pedaling the tricycle, which weighs a few hundred pounds loaded, all over Sacramento and West Sacramento trying to sell produce on residential streets. It\u2019s decked out with a megaphone that he uses to play gypsy jazz as he cruises by at 8 to 10 mph.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m roaming, playing, announcing and catching the squint of blinds,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m waving, they\u2019re looking straight at (the tricycle), and usually that person will come out. … Every single person gets a smile and a wave and positivity. It feels good doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that daylight is waning earlier, Samaan is shifting from the \u201cice cream truck\u201d model to a slightly more stationary method. On weekday afternoons, he bikes the goods in from West Sacramento and parks them in front of partner businesses downtown, such as Edible Pedal bike shop and delivery service, where he was Friday, and La Bonne Soupe Cafe at Eighth and J streets.<\/p>\n

The timing is ideal considering that several farmers markets held downtown midweek recently closed for the season, said Benner. The young entrepreneurial couple hope to fill the gap that those markets left and continue providing organic produce options to customers year-round.<\/p>\n

Dan Best, manager of more than a dozen Certified Farmers\u2019 Markets in Sacramento County, said he has to close some of his locations during the winter because demand drops below a point of sustainability. The pedestrian markets, as he calls the downtown markets, draw people less consistently than community markets, such as the Sunday market held under the freeway, which survive year-round because people drive there to do the bulk of their grocery shopping.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the pedestrian markets, people just come check it out and maybe don\u2019t buy much or anything at all,\u201d he said. \u201cThere has to be enough customer base. We know it\u2019s not penciling out, so we sometimes make the decision that this market is not supporting the farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Samaan, a part-time farmer and part-time bike-building enthusiast, said he believes he can at least break even with community collaboration and the right advertising.<\/p>\n

One couple who stopped by Friday said they put off going to the grocery store so they could visit the Veggie Trike. Rick Houston, a regular at Edible Pedal, took a photograph of the produce display and posted it on Facebook, hoping to draw more people to the stand.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s indicative of where our priorities and our ethos are headed, in terms of eating properly … now it\u2019s more accessible,\u201d he said. \u201cObviously you\u2019re not going to be able to have enough food for 100 people to get their groceries, but it\u2019s nice for people to be able to come pick something up. It\u2019s close. It\u2019s clever.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Veggie Trike, which is licensed as a business through the city of West Sacramento, was constructed by Cycle Trucks, a West Sacramento business specializing in cargo bikes that are made for carrying loads. Samaan said he intends to work with the company to build a coffee tricycle, which he\u2019ll use to tote local brews around the Capitol in the mornings.<\/p>\n

For many in Sacramento, the concepts of quality food and quality bicycles go hand in hand. In addition to its function as a bike shop, Edible Pedal handles deliveries for Magpie Cafe, Hot Italian, Ginger Elizabeth Chocolates and other \u201cslow food\u201d institutions around Sacramento. Edible Pedal owner John Boyer said the Veggie Trike fits perfectly into the shop\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s probably senior to the bikes here, the delivery of good quality food, especially to the workaday world down here,\u201d he said. \u201cWe want to feed them right so they don\u2019t fall asleep on their desks at 3 o\u2019clock.\u201d<\/p>\n

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