Food Deserts Mar the Land of Plenty
Posted: September 26th, 2013 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: community gardens, diabetes, food desert, food deserts, rural, urban | Comments Off on Food Deserts Mar the Land of Plenty(Originally published in the September 2013 issue of Diabetes Forecast.)
Steph Larsen knows about farming. As a small farmer, assistant director of organizing at the Center for Rural Affairs, and a former columnist at Grist, an environmental newsmagazine, she’s had her hands in the soil and has harvested healthy food. And yet, despite living out in the farm fields from Wisconsin to Montana, she can’t necessarily go pick her dinner every night, and neither can her neighbors. Read the rest at Diabetes Forecast.