food access
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The good food news of 2011
2011 was a big year for food politics. In case you dozed off anywhere along the way, I’ve collected the year’s most important stories below. (Want something lighter? See my Sustainable Food Trends story from last week. Want something heavier? Here’s the bad food news.) 1. Urban farming is flourishing. An urban farm in Chicago.Photo: […]
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Oh, SNAP! Grow gardens with food stamps
A few years ago, back when she still had a job in the natural-foods industry, “my kids only got the best in terms of food,” said Corbyn Hightower, a mother of three who now lives outside Sacramento. Then, she said, “we lost everything, and we really started having to compromise.” Hightower signed up for the […]
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Maude’s Market: Spreading local food in Monsanto country
Maude Bauschard, outside her local food market in St. Louis. Maude Bauschard sells local and sustainably produced groceries and runs a weekly community-supported agriculture (CSA) box from a small store she calls Maude’s Market. This wouldn’t sound like much if she were living in a city on one of the coasts, but Bauschard lives in […]
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Food justice — for Navina Khanna, it's what's for dinner
Meet the first member of the Change Gang, a group of people leading change on the ground toward a more sustainable society and greener planet.
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In its previous life, this corner grocery was a shipping container
Mobile food deliveries bring fresh, healthy produce to food deserts. But to really change a neighborhood's access to food, a small store with big ideas learns you have to take the wheels off.