Tag Archive: food desert

A Possible Solution To Food Deserts

Catherine Sherriffs

Researchers in Montreal, Canada have come up with a way to help people living in food deserts access nutritious and affordable food. Food deserts are urban areas typically loaded with fast-food chains and bare-bones supermarkets. Meals in these areas are easy, cheap, and unhealthy. Furthermore, studies have found that food deserts are often located in…

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Urban Farming Legend Will Allen Retired

To say that Will Allen was the Godfather of Urban Farming is pretty appropriate. Awarding him that title wasn’t my idea, but it certainly fits his work well. Many an urban farm startup – nonprofit or otherwise – looked up to the man, his organization, and his views. You might say that this instigator of…
January 3, 2018
Callie

Aquaponics: Change Grows in the Hood

One inner city Kansas City neighborhood is in the midst of change thanks to aquaponics, and the work of a resident recently returned from the world at large. Dre Taylor is busy building a self-sustaining urban farm capable of growing 175,000 pounds of fresh, organic food a year on the city’s east side. It’s the…
July 9, 2016
Amber

Growtown: Detroit’s Urban Farming Legacy

It’s the opposite of the blues, and driven by a power that has nothing to do with engines. Motown has come full circle, the birthplace of the urban farming for food desert relief returns to it’s roots in a really big way. There’s a really massive farm under development in the heart of the city – the next step in Detroit’s…
November 21, 2015
Tammy Clayton