Sentences with phrase «neighborhoods in the food desert»

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«We started out as a small café in an old neighborhood on Route 66 in Albuquerque, feeling that the area needed a low key place focused on coffee, desert and light food,» CEO Jean Bernstein says.

From the beginning, Philadelphians have seen the Reading Terminal Market as an investment in the community, and the nonprofit board that's managed it since 1994 has made it its mission to ensure it remains a space run by Philadelphian food experts for Philadelphian food lovers and home cooks (an agenda made even more critical by the fact that the many Philly neighborhoods are food deserts — the market is the largest single - location redeemer of SNAP benefits in the state).

Please watch this video and educate yourself on the conditions in many vulnerable communities about what you can do (beyond leaving comments on blogs) to help transform these areas from «first food deserts» into First Food Friendly neighborhofood deserts» into First Food Friendly neighborhoFood Friendly neighborhoods.

I say «most everyone» because, unfortunately, millions of Americans live in what are known as «food deserts» (vast areas in low - income neighborhoods that are absolutely saturated with fast food chains and severely lack access to fresh produce and basic healthful foods).

Many families that are struggling economically or even just barely staying afloat, don't have the luxury of time to go to a grocery store (if they even have one in their neighborhood - food deserts are a whole different animal that I hope someone discusses here).

In less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hungeIn less than a year we have implemented many of the action items in our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hungein our health and human services plan, «Initiatives for a Strong Community,» as varied as bringing fresh foods and vegetables to inner city neighborhoods labeled «food deserts,» to completing a chronic neglect study and incorporating its findings into our child welfare response programs, to increasing participation in the SNAP program to reduce hungein the SNAP program to reduce hunger.

Wendell Pierce — New Orleans native Wendell Pierce opened Sterling Farms grocery store in the Lower Ninth Ward to help relieve food deserts in the neighborhood.

Food deserts tend to occur in a city's poorest neighborhoods.

Urban agriculture comes in many shapes and forms, but the most beneficial are the urban farms and community gardens in inner city neighborhoods where a lack of stores selling fresh produce creates a «food desert.»