Frequently Asked Questions

Fill out our Wholesale Inquiry Form, so our sales team can assist you. Once you've submitted your inquiry form, a member of our sales team will contact you to go over how wholesale ordering works at 4P Foods. They will cover how we can best serve you based on what products we offer, our delivery days, and our order minimums. Get started here to set up an account with us.

Each week we have a fresh selection of seasonal produce listed on our Wholesale Availability List, published weekly for customers. We also have a wide variety of protein, dairy, and pantry items sourced from mission aligned regional farmers, ranchers, and makers.

Place your order by email to sales@4PFoods.com or by calling (434) 244-3276.

4P Foods services a wide range of customer types including Small and Large Grocery Stores, Restaurants, Caterers, Senior Living Facilities, Hospitals, Corporate Dining, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA’s), Universities, K12 Schools, Food Access Organizations, and Food Is Medicine Programs.

4P currently serves customers throughout western, northern, central (including tidewater area) and southwest VA, Washington, DC, Maryland, and North Carolina. Please inquire with our wholesale sales team if we come to your location!

Our Wholesale Availability List has a detailed look at our full selection of regionally and responsibly sourced food. Once you are a customer you will have access to our Availability List.

You will also receive a weekly email with featured products and updates from 4P Foods.

For items that we stock in our warehouse regularly (vegetables, pantry & frozen items) the order deadline is 12pm the business day prior. We kindly request our customers not to submit order changes (cancellations or add ons) after the order deadline (noon the business day prior) to ensure fulfillment of orders. If you plan to order 4 or more cases of any one item it’s best to submit your order 7 business days in advance of the designated delivery day to assure we can get the quantity desired.

There are a handful of items on our list (chicken, milks, cheese, salsa, beef, etc) that we do not store in our warehouse, and instead order it fresh from the producers each week. Those items require about a week lead time for us to order it from them, then send it out to you. We'll be around to remind you when the deadlines are for any specific pre order items you're interested in. The Pre-order items are marked on the Wholesale Availability List with their schedule.

Yes! We love recurring orders! A great way to avoid worrying about the pre order schedule/deadlines is to set up standing orders. We can set you up to automatically receive the items you most frequently order by the case every week without having to regularly ask for them.

Our mission is to empower you to transform the food system.

And how do we do that, you ask? Every purchase you make with 4P allows you to live your values and support small and mid-sized family farmers and artisans by giving them access to new markets, while also helping ensure that all people have equitable access to the food produced by these farmers.

We believe food that is source identified and produced in a system that empowers farmers and regenerates the earth should be the norm, not the exception, and we actively work to make that vision a reality each and every day. Every purchase with 4P not only supports a growing network of small family farms and artisan producers in the region, but also advances equitable access to fresh healthy food in the communities we serve.

We source locally and regionally from a network of over 200 small-to-mid-sized, independent farmers.

Why source regionally? For example, by sourcing regionally and using a network of other food hubs, we can offer peak-season strawberries longer by following their season up from the Carolinas in early spring through Virginia and beyond into mid-summer.

4P is a founding member of the Eastern Food Hub Collaborative, a network of other food hubs like us up and down the Eastern Seaboard who all work with their own vetted networks of small, sustainable farmers and work together to increase the variety and supply of produce available from this region.

Feel free to check out our growing collection of farmer profiles for more information about our food and the people behind it.

Check out our farmers and makers page! We’re always updating it, so stay tuned for more profiles of the many amazing farmers, ranchers, and artisans from whom we source.