HuffPost:With awareness growing about “food desert” communities locally, one area restaurant consortium is launching a new program aiming to bring quality produce to Washington neighborhoods that lack easy access to full-service grocery stores. By late October, the non-profit Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture plans to launch a Mobile Market, a decommissioned school bus retrofitted as a farmers market on wheels that can accept federal food assistance benefits, commonly known as food stamps.
Posted on Thursday, September 15th 2011
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