Greensboro Community Looks to Food Cooperative to Fill Grocery Gap
A low-income community of color is applying a cooperative solution to combat food insecurity.
food deserts
After Years Without a Grocery Store, Greensboro Neighbors Are Building One Themselves—And They’ll Own It
For more than 15 years, there were many efforts to lure a new grocery store into the space. However, while the store would be profitable, it wouldn’t be profitable enough to satisfy the demands of the shareholder-based economy of a large corporation.
Food as a Commons
In California, the prototype of a combined social, political and technical solution has been launched which promises to unlock the food system crisis.
How a Fruit and Vegetable Auction in Rural Ohio Helps Appalachian Farmers Thrive
What Rapposelli refers to as "real food" is becoming more of an "everyday thing" in Morgan County, according to auction regular Mary VanHorn.
Meals on wheels
These 2% Solutions feature a mobile grocery and a mobile processing unit, both of which are innovative ideas for feeding people in food deserts.