DaFresh Seafood and Produce Store has been awarded $117,000 by the New Orleans Fresh Food Retailer Initiative, which in partnership with Hope Enterprise Corp. and The Food Trust is providing loans to existing and startup grocers in underserved New Orleans communities.
In rural areas across Minnesota, thousands of residents live in communities without a major grocery store. In Big Stone County, small grocers like Bonnie's Hometown Grocery are making a big difference.
Massachusetts ranks nearly dead last — third from the bottom nationally — in having enough supermarkets with fresh, nutritious food, according to a report to be released today by the Massachusetts Public Health Association.
Supervisor Eric Mar introduces legislation to establish a Healthy Food Retailer Incentives Program. The purpose of this legislations is to increase access to healthy food; reduce unhealthy influences such as tobacco, alcohol and processed foods high in salt, fat and sugar in underserved parts of the City by providing incentives for existing corner and mom and pop stores.
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.
State lawmakers are revealing a new plan to end rising obesity rates in Tennessee. They want to fight fat by bringing more supermarkets to the state.
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.
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.
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.
Focus Points Family Resource Center has started a shuttle for residents in a north Denver food desert to improve their access to a local grocery store. The shuttle is designed to pick up residents at several places in the Globeville and Elyria Swansea neighborhoods and take them to a Sunnyside grocery store.