In Atlanta, urban agriculture is being used as a solution to address the issue of food insecurity in the city. When an unused pecan farm in south Atlanta’s neighborhoods closed, the land was soon reclassified to become the site for townhouses. But these townhouses were never built, and the lot remained in foreclosure. That’s when …
Food insecurity
Linda Tutt High School in Sanger, Texas, recently built a grocery store inside its campus. Making it even more remarkable is the store’s unique payment method of accepting only good deeds instead of cash. The high school opened the shop in November to help low-income students and their families put food on their tables and …
A woman set up a GoFundMe account to feed kids in her neighborhood in St. Louis. She aimed to raise at least $1,500 but didn’t think that she would get 40 times the amount of her original goal. Champale Anderson has been giving out free snacks to children in her community. Though she knows parents …