Yellow Graphic reading: Vendor Writing

Solving the Food Desert

Nashville has looked at the problem of food deserts, and done a few things to solve it. For instance, you can double your EBT at the downtown Farmer’s Market. Edible Nashville publishes a yearly guide to local farmers and regional farmers that offer CSA’s. The town of Andernach, Germany, with a population of 30,000, has managed over the last 16 years to create a complete Food Island. They have 38,000 square feet of food growing in all public spaces.

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People Die in the Gaps

During Nashville’s historic ice storm this winter, one of our newspaper vendors died on the streets from hypothermia. Her name was Sharon, and she had a way of speaking that stayed with people.