Less than a year after a grocery pilot program began in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Winton Hills, participants are reporting better health, reduced hunger and a greater hope for the future. The City of Cincinnati partnered with Kroger to provide $100 a month of delivered groceries to 136 eligible households for twelve months. The grocery money is used in conjunction with SNAP or WIC benefits […]
Nearly 50 million people in the U.S. don’t have enough food to eat and what they do have probably isn’t the most nutritious, leading to possible health problems later in life. Food banks and food rescue organizations are helping (we’ll cover those in another episode), but so are community markets and urban gardens. They’re working to fill the gap by providing fresh fruit and vegetables […]
