Official Channel of The Washington State Department of Agriculture

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A series of short videos on good agriculture practices. Farmers share their stories and strategies.

Northside Healthy Food Hub to bring food, jobs to Spartanburg's north side

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A group of community organizations transforming a patch of overgrown land on Spartanburg's north side into a complex of buildings dubbed the Northside Healthy Food Hub. When completed, the compound will host a garden, a community kitchen and a cafe that sells nutritious, ready-made meals and fresh produce.

New grocery store opens in underserved Chaffee Park neighborhood

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Denver City Councilmember Judy Montero and representatives from the Denver Office of Economic Development and the Denver Department of Environmental Health celebrated the opening of the Colorado Ranch Market grocery store. The Chaffee Park neighborhood was at risk of becoming a food desert following the closing of a grocery store earlier in the summer.

Improving and Facilitating a Farmers Market in a Low-income Urban Neighborhood: A Washington, DC, Case Study

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An initiative to try to expand farmers' markets in low-income neighborhoods in Washington D.C.

If you stock it, will they buy it? Healthy food availability and customer purchasing behavior within corner stores in Hartford, CT, USA

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A study observing customer shopping behavior and store food inventory data, finding a positive correlation between fruit and vegetable variety and the probability of purchasing.

Healthy NOLA Neighborhoods

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This interactive map of New Orleans provides information about the status of health and well-being of the community including health, social and environmental domains and the drivers of that status. It also provides model practices and tools that support neighborhood associations’ and tracks changes in over time.

Healthy Food For All: Building Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems in Detroit and Oakland

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This report provides case studies of two cities—Detroit and Oakland—that are taking innovative steps to repair their food delivery networks. PolicyLink and Michigan State University collaborated to chronicle the efforts of residents and activists, the challenges they face, and the solutions they have developed.

Group hopes to lure grocery to Minneapolis food desert

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Minneapolis' Powderhorn community residents have started a group called The Carrot Initiative to push for more fresh food in their neighborhood. The group put a $5000 deposit on an old Furniture Liquidators building in order to hold space for a potential grocer. The neighborhood is one of a few officially-recognized food deserts in south Minneapolis.

Food deserts: We need more grocery stores in the right places

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Houston doesn't have nearly enough grocery stores: That's the startling, stark conclusion of The Food Trust's new report "Food for Every Child." And without those stores, our neighborhoods and our health are suffering.

Food Deserts Still Causing Problems In Houston's Low-Income Neighborhoods

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Within the next year or so, three big-box grocery stores are expected to open within just a couple of miles of downtown. HEB, Kroger and Wal-Mart stores will soon serve the Montrose area and the Washington Avenue Corridor. But those stores will do nothing to fix what has become a serious problem here — food deserts.

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