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I was skimming the most current issue of Food and Nutrition Magazine and came across this interesting article here .   The story centers in Clark County, Washington, where over a quarter of children don’t know where their next meal is coming from!   Like many lower-income areas, transportation is an issue, so the Lewis River Mobile Food Bank was created.   The trailer serves as a source of foods and recipes and helps 110 households monthly.   Also featured in the article is a similar service – a Producemobile in the Chicago area, where as many as one in three people may be food insecure and food deserts are a reality.   Additionally, this program served 200,000 people in the past year.   Seeing as these programs have been successful thus far, perhaps other cities could follow suit with this approach to get fresh foods to those who need it most.   It will be interesting to see how this trend may evolve in the near future. Source: Sund, E.   (2013).   A tale of two food

             During my junior year of undergrad, I went on a spring break service trip, and one of the many projects my team worked on was building an urban garden in Jacksonville, Florida.   This sparked my interest in urban gardening, and for this reason, the New York Times article entitled “ Street Farmer ” caught my attention.   This article profiles urban farmer Will Allen who is the Founder and CEO of Growing Power farm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.   Allen’s farm is composed of 14 greenhouses in an urban area which would otherwise be considered a food desert, located only a short distance from the largest public-housing project in Milwaukee.   The sheer amount of fresh produce that Allen’s farm provides city residents via the on-farm retail store, city famers’ markets, basket deliveries, and local schools and restaurants is impressive, but he doesn’t stop at this, raising livestock ranging from tilapia to goats to beehives right in the middle of Milwaukee.   The arti