In New Orleans better access to organic or local food linked to more education, higher home values, denser neighborhoods but not to income or race.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31031506

#NICHDImpact #FoodDesert #Organic #Education #Neighborhoods

How big grocers are taking down smaller competitors, and why it means higher grocery prices for all of us.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/opinion/inflation-groceries-pricing-walmart.html

#FoodJustice #FoodDesert #Groceries #Food #SustainableLiving

Steve & Ben spend a day a week knocking doors on their estate offering to plant free fruit trees in folks' gardens. Today, they are out with fruit bushes looking for new homes.

They've had a brilliant response, and it's opened up many wonderful connections and conversations about traditional food crops amongst their diverse community.

Residents will have fresh fruit on their doorstep at zero cost. The group also offer workshops in thrifty growing and caring for fruit trees.

It's a direct response to the #costoflivingcrisis that also improves climate & biodiversity.

Here's what Steve says: "The most direct way of addressing food poverty is getting together with friends, family and community and growing it. It's surprisingly easy, it starts with a conversation over a brew. Be that person who puts the kettle on and invites folk round." ❤️

Delighted we could support Community Roots Permaculture Project with a Transition Together seed-funding grant, supported by @tnlcommunityfund.

Read more about the impact of communities planting trees: https://transitiontogether.org.uk/communities-planting-trees-for-the-future/

#urbangrowing #foodpoverty #growyourown #fruittrees #fruitbushes #permaculture #bolton #fooddesert #transitiontown #transition #foodsystem #costofliving #communityaction #climateaction

I love this concept, but upkeep on these is very difficult, and forcing these types of spaces into disadvantaged communities whose residents have their time monopolized by their jobs, school, and families is a mistake that is often made by people who are not from those neighborhoods presuming what is best for those neighborhoods

#FoodDesert #urbanfarming

https://youtu.be/9IYpXA0CxXg

@KeithDJohnson There should be no public land that is manicured for grass. It should all be vegetables, provided to food banks and shelters. Kentucky bluegrass is a #fooddesert.

Dollar stores were the fastest-growing food retailers by household expenditure share between 2008 to 2020 in the United States according to new research from Tufts University. While they still represent a small fraction of national household food purchases, they play an increasingly prominent role for disadvantaged and rural communities. Public health experts are concerned about the impact these increases could have on regions that already experience higher baseline levels of obesity and food insecurity.

https://now.tufts.edu/2023/01/19/dollar-stores-are-growing-food-retailers-us

Study: https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.307193

#DollarStore #PublicHealth #Nutrition #Obesity #Food #FoodDesert #FoodInsecurity #Inequality #Rural #LowIncome #Health #Research #Science

I deserve it, for going there to look. The very first image I see?

Why on earth is an aspirin company talking about #FoodDesert issues in America? Thankful, at least someone is - but this is such an easy fix, if corporations weren't so greedy!

And Buc-ees is the new Disney world of american highways. It is sad what so many people accept as normal
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RT @modernTman
Small Town America

#FoodDesert

Dollar & convenient stores.

You as a child did not have to suffer the same plight.

What are YOU going to do about it?
#BeefIntelligence is the answer.
Take action👇👇
https://beefinitiative.com/donate
https://twitter.com/modernTman/status/1599458771704872960

Seeking simple #baking recipes featuring #grapes.

Very simple. I am #indigent and live in a #FoodDesert. Have mercy.