By Sara Hayden
Rebyl Meals gives fruit and veggies, specialty meals from residence cooks and different items that Coastside prospects can order weekly. Photograph courtesy Ryan Salet.
There is a quiet riot occurring out of Half Moon Bay. The mission? Feed the Coastside from the Coastside.
Rebyl Meals is making a central place the place meals creators and prospects from Pacifica to Pescadero can join. A part of the purpose is to show that the neighborhood can feed itself, past large chains.
“To purchase a majority of these merchandise and and help a majority of these companies is a bit rebellious,” founder and proprietor Ryan Salet says. “We wish to be an information level. We wish to show that this works now.”
This stretch of Northern California is particular in that it has entry to each agricultural land and ocean, in addition to talent and expertise. With that, there’s entry to high-quality staples together with produce, livestock and seafood.
“This is not attainable on an enormous scale, however I do assume there are different communities on the market (the place it’s). I would like to be an information level and show that this kind of mannequin works,” Salet says.
Salet began partnering with meals growers and makers all through the Coastside. “Simm’s organics was a place to begin for me, and speaking to them. It spider-webbed by means of that,” Salet says.
Now, Salet’s workforce of 4 is working with dozens of distributors to serve a few hundred prospects per week. Clients place orders on-line, then the Rebyl workforce works out of an area supplied by John and Eda Muller of Farmer John’s Pumpkins. The workforce assembles orders “to fill the grocery cart, so to talk,” Salet says. From totally different meals makers, they embrace fruit and veggies, meat, poultry, seafood, ready meals, craft meals, baked treats and extra. Then, the workforce delivers orders by van.
“All these locations have been there and performing at a really excessive degree. The problem that Rebyl is tackling is it is actually onerous to get them in a single place,” Salet says.
Whereas the pandemic delayed the opening of some companies, it expedited Rebyl’s. Salet began creating the idea in 2019 with plans to open in the course of 2020, however ended up launching earlier to offer meals growers and makers a platform to achieve extra individuals, and prospects an outlet with pickup and supply for groceries as different choices grew to become extra restricted. It was a technique to work with current companies, in addition to new ones.
“It is fairly exceptional. I get to fulfill all these farmers. They’re hardworking individuals and create great merchandise,” Salet says. “COVID introduced numerous fascinating issues. There are individuals who due to circumstance have been pushed into making an attempt extra of a ardour undertaking and shifting in that path.”
Rebyl’s founding was impressed by Salet’s want to help the neighborhood the place he was born and raised, however nationwide public well being added gas to the hearth. Previous to beginning Rebyl, Salet labored in well being care analytics for a decade, observing that the leading causes of death within the U.S. embrace coronary heart illness and diabetes, largely pushed by what we eat.
“Once you see the best driving illness that is widespread throughout the nation, meals has quite a bit to do with that. It grew to become essential for me as a person to know the place it got here from and ensure it was what I needed to place in my physique,” Salet says. “I began considering as a buyer.”
Is all the things sourced from Pacifica to Pescadero? Not fairly.
“We do not make all the things right here — but. So we go so far as San Francisco and Santa Cruz,” Salet says.
However Salet hopes that this bears out: “(The coast is) an especially particular place for meals. We’ve got the potential of feeding ourselves.
“This neighborhood has been wonderful … The distributors — the farmers, the ranchers, the foodmakers, the fishermen — they’re the lifeblood. It would not work with out them.”
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