Some NC farmers markets struggle to accept food stamps, By Andrea Weigl, April 10, 2014, News and Observer: “Consumers can use food stamps to buy produce at grocery stores, but the freshest local fruits and vegetables for sale at farmers markets are often not available to them. Many local markets would love to sell to those shoppers but find they don’t have the manpower or money to be able to accept food stamps. In Wake County, five small markets with grant funding and government or other financial support already accept or will soon be accepting food stamps; a few farmers at the state-run market off Lake Wheeler Road near downtown Raleigh accept them, too. Without such support, other markets have found the process daunting…”
Tag: Food deserts
Neighborhoods and Access to Supermarkets
Poor, mostly black areas face supermarket ‘double jeopardy’, By Emily Alpert Reyes, October 30, 2013, Los Angeles Times: “Poor, mostly black neighborhoods face double jeopardy when it comes to supermarket access, according to a study recently published by the journal Preventive Medicine. That may not sound like news at all: Scholars and activists have long fretted that poor, minority neighborhoods have worse access to supermarkets, which is tied to less healthy diets. But researchers from Johns Hopkins University wanted to see how different neighborhood traits — poverty and racial makeup — were related to the problem…”
Food Deserts – Wichita, KS
Wichitans face 44 square miles of ‘food deserts’ in low-income areas, By Beccy Tanner, October 7, 2013, Wichita Eagle: “Wichita has 44 square miles of food deserts – low-income areas where residents have little to no access to healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables, a study presented Monday by the Health & Wellness Coalition of Wichita showed. In an urban area, a food desert is defined as an area more than one mile from a full-service grocery store. Here, those areas are concentrated in south, central, north and parts of west Wichita…”