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Eating healthy in a food desert: Mecklenburg leaders seek new solutions
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Youth working at the Seeds of Change Urban Farm, a quarter-acre farm in the West Boulevard Corridor where neighbors grow fresh, healthy food for the community – a response to the lack of grocery stores in their neighborhoods. Photo courtesy Rickey Hall

Article from UNC Charlotte Urban Institue by Jonathan McFadden

Mecklenburg County leaders are trying to find solutions for a worsening food crisis in the county’s poorest neighborhoods.

Nearly 15 percent of the county’s population lives in what the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls food deserts — low-income communities where most residents don’t have access to a full-service grocery store or supermarket carrying  Read More

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