Programs cropping up across USA to address 'food deserts'

[phantom power]

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The kale, turnips and romaine lettuce grow in neat rows on a 2-acre plot at Woodlawn estate, a Virginia property once owned by George Washington. Today, a non-profit organization uses the land to raise vegetables and fruit to be sold in inner city Washington, where it's hard to find fresh food.

"It's really poignant," Pat Lute says of the circle formed by the food from land once tended by 91 slaves that is now going to people in need.

Lute is executive director of the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture, which is equipping a used school bus to make regular stops in neighborhoods where residents' food choices are limited to corner stores, dollar stores and fast-food restaurants.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-07-13-food-deserts-farmers-market-agriculture_n.htm

[PoliticAverse]

1. Good to see some people are getting their just deserts... n/t

[Recursion]

2. There are now 3 "real" grocery stores east of the river. There used to be 0.

Like, until last year, I think. Though I guess there was always the not-so-Safeway, as we called.

[txlibdem]

3. I wish them great success - the problem is nationwide, unfortunately

A couple of years ago I saw a documentary on Oakland, California. I hope I'm spelling that right... It's right across the bay from San Francisco and the poor neighborhoods there have zero grocery stores, but they have a liquor store on every corner and fast food joints as far as the eye can see.

That is only a small part of the class warfare the rich are waging against the bottom 90% of us... and they've been waging class war against us since the 1950s. We need to assert our Democratic muscle and stop allowing the psychopaths at the top to divide us and confuse us with idiocies such as talk radio and Faux News. Divide and conquer -- remember these times for what they really are.