About Us

Farm Fresh Express LLC is owned and operated by Mary Ann Flaherty of Drexel Hill and Pam Nelson of West Philadelphia. Mary Ann formed the company in November, 2005, and was joined soon after by Pam who was planning to start a similar company herself.

We both have a passion for food that is grown with care for the land, the animals, the workers, and the people who eventually eat the food. We think this is happy food. And it is essential for the ongoing health of our families, of our communities and of our planet.

Farm Fresh Express Statement of Purpose:

1. To deliver the freshest, healthiest food available in the Delaware Valley to health-conscious consumers at their homes or businesses, to food service and health-oriented businesses for their clientele, and to consumers with physical limitations who cannot get out to shop.


2. To expand the market for local farmers by supplying fresh produce, meats, dairy products, and other comestibles to consumers who would not otherwise buy them.


3. To help educate consumers about the benefits of eating locally grown and/or produced foods and


4. To operate an economically, environmentally and socially sustainable, for-profit business that operates with a triple bottom line: people, planet, profits.

About Pam:
Pam Nelson grew up on three acres in the suburbs of Boston. To a little girl, those three acres were a natural haven in which she spent countless hours playing and just being. She, also, loved the fresh vegetables that grew in her grandfather’s garden and took special pleasure picking ripe tomatoes and eating them right there in the garden, the juice dripping down her chin. Her innocent trust in the wholesomeness of her environment was shattered one day, when, after drinking from a stream near her home, she learned that the stream was polluted. As she grew, she became aware of the many ways that people were damaging the earth and themselves. Since she moved to West Philadelphia nearly 25 years ago, Pam has worked for various non-profit organizations on peace and social justice, ethnic tolerance, and, most recently, healthful food as a staff person at Mariposa Food Coop. For Pam, Farm Fresh Express is a way to contribute to the healing of the earth and its inhabitants, and to share the joys of eating food that’s fresh from the earth and bursting with life.

About Mary Ann:
Mary Ann Flaherty Ford is a lifelong environmentalist... beginning the night she, at age twelve, slept on the banks of the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The majestic canyon walls loomed above, framing a black sky that could hardly contain the billions of twinkling diamonds hung there. In those moments, Mary Ann discovered her place in the universe--a speck in that immensity, yet a powerful woman who had hiked six miles down into this blazing hot space and who would hike ten miles to get out. Many years later, as an adult environmentalist, upon learning that the average American's food travels 1500 miles to the table, she asked herself, "How can I call myself an environmentalist and use up that much fuel just for my food?" From a personal level to a community level, and now through Farm Fresh Express, Mary Ann has committed herself to increasing the markets for local farmers and food producers, thereby reducing that 1500 mile average. The mother of two grown daughters, Mary Ann lives in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania with her organic garden and her Philadelphia 76ers T-shirts, flags and souvenir photos.