Heard about the issue of “food deserts”? Kody Shellhouse explores his home town to find out more
“I found something interesting the other day while reading about food deserts, places defined by the Healthy Food Financing Initiative as ‘a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store.’
“There has been a lot of media coverage on the idea of food deserts recently, and I have seen studies and arguments both confirming their existence and questioning their relevance to the health and fitness of the communities in which they exist…”
