While
these urban areas lack grocery stories, fast food restaurants and
convenience stores are often plentiful.Kenneth Reardon, a professor and
director of the graduate program of City and Regional Planning at the
University of Memphis, discovered that only seven out of 77 low-income
census tracks in urban Memphis have access to a full-service
supermarket.
Studies show that people who live in communities without supermarkets, often dubbed food deserts, have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, renal failure, cardiovascular disease and other diet-related health problems, says Curtis Thomas, deputy executive director of the Memphis-based nonprofit The Works Inc.
Thomas said in recent years there has been a renewed focus on increasing access to affordable, healthy and fresh foods in urban communities. That national focus has provided increased funding opportunities for local nonprofits that focus on food security, he explained. Already, several long-term efforts are underway in Memphis.
In May, Saint Patrick Community Outreach, the Vance Avenue Collaborative and the University of Memphis graduate program in City and Regional Planning launched the Green Machine, a mobile food market that sells fresh, affordable produce at 15 city locations throughout the city.
In late June, city community leaders and South Memphis residents celebrated the completion of a new building that will eventually house a year-round greengrocer at the South Memphis Farmers Market. A new space for cooking classes and demonstrations already is open and fully operational.
The South Memphis Farmers Market opened in 2010 as a collaborative organization run by South Memphis residents, The Works and the University of Memphis. While the outdoor seasonal market has been widely popular with local residents, Thomas said the markets outdoor location limited its ability to provide healthy and affordable food during the winter months.
Beginning in January 2014, South Memphis residents will be able to purchase healthy produce and food at the indoor greengrocer.The bestsmartcard is not only critical to professional photographers. Thomas said the greengrocer will sell food from a mix of local farmers and producers as well as national suppliers.Our heavy-duty construction provides reliable operation and guarantees your earcap will be in service for years to come.
Local organizers saw an opportunity to capitalize on the markets location in a U.S. Department of Agriculture-designated food desert and the increased national focus on food security and access, Thomas said.The $1.2 million community effort relies on funding from The Plough Foundation, The U.S. Department of Agriculture, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and various local agencies and organizations.
Roshun Austin, president and CEO of The Works, said the South Memphis Farmers Market helps eliminate a food desert, while also supporting the redevelopment of the South Parkway commercial corridor.While the greengrocer phase of the South Memphis Farmers Market wont open until January 2014, The Works has teamed up with the University of Tennessee Extension to offer free cooking demonstrations in the newly redeveloped facility at 1400 Mississippi Blvd.
Last year we had a lot of demand for canning demonstrations so that people could preserve their fresh tomatoes when there were a bunch and they were much cheaper, Thomas said.Eventually, the South Memphis Farmers Market will offer series of classes that focus on a broad range of topics like the dietary needs of residents with diabetes and heart disease, cooking with children, organic eating, preparing food for the elderly and shopping on a budget.
The new cooking demonstration area can comfortably seat 30 participants and also houses four cooking stations for hands-on classes.Once we establish a schedule, I think we are going to have trouble keeping up with demand, Thomas said.As shopping experiences go, this one is about as out there as the product being purchased. Sitting at a table inside a sun-streaked decommissioned air traffic Relevant Products/Services control tower overlooking San Francisco Bay, Krystal Liu,New and used commercial handsfreeaccess sales, rentals, and service. 22, slowly lifts the lid off a big lily-white box and shrieks.
"Wow, it's so ... beautiful," Liu says as she ogles her titanium-and-white-plastic Google Glass, a $1,500 graduation-timed gift that she plans to take on her summer travels to Tibet and China. "My phone is always glued to my hand, so maybe using this will give me an extra one. This is a new chapter in technology."It's certainly a new chapter for Google. After making its name and fortune in search and software, the California titan is using Glass to leap into both the hardware and retail space.
Some 10,Which plasticmould is right for you?000 Glass Explorers -- winners of an online contest who agreed to pay list price -- receive the cyborg-like apparatus over the course of this summer, while the rest of the world comes on line in 2014.Besides being first on their respective blocks with a futuristic wearable computer, Explorers provide feedback to engineers largely through comments via an online community dedicated to Glass pioneers.
Google is going to great lengths to ensure that its first consumer marketing effort is a winner. In New York, Explorers are introduced to Glass by trained guides in an airy Chelsea penthouse buzzing with activity and high-end catering. In Los Angeles, the scene repeats itself in Google's sleek Venice Beach offices.
USA TODAY recently was invited to attend the Bay Area Glass Basecamp.A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an howotruck. A few dozen newbie Explorers were ferried over from San Francisco to this former naval base and shipyard to drink Champagne, eat organic boar sandwiches and slip on their personal looking glass to the future.
"People say manufacturing is dead in America, but we wanted to hold our event here where planes flew and ships were built to show that this country can do it again, and Glass is an example of that," says senior program manager Emily Ma. "We're not selling a device Relevant Products/Services as much as we're connecting people. And that starts here."
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Studies show that people who live in communities without supermarkets, often dubbed food deserts, have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, renal failure, cardiovascular disease and other diet-related health problems, says Curtis Thomas, deputy executive director of the Memphis-based nonprofit The Works Inc.
Thomas said in recent years there has been a renewed focus on increasing access to affordable, healthy and fresh foods in urban communities. That national focus has provided increased funding opportunities for local nonprofits that focus on food security, he explained. Already, several long-term efforts are underway in Memphis.
In May, Saint Patrick Community Outreach, the Vance Avenue Collaborative and the University of Memphis graduate program in City and Regional Planning launched the Green Machine, a mobile food market that sells fresh, affordable produce at 15 city locations throughout the city.
In late June, city community leaders and South Memphis residents celebrated the completion of a new building that will eventually house a year-round greengrocer at the South Memphis Farmers Market. A new space for cooking classes and demonstrations already is open and fully operational.
The South Memphis Farmers Market opened in 2010 as a collaborative organization run by South Memphis residents, The Works and the University of Memphis. While the outdoor seasonal market has been widely popular with local residents, Thomas said the markets outdoor location limited its ability to provide healthy and affordable food during the winter months.
Beginning in January 2014, South Memphis residents will be able to purchase healthy produce and food at the indoor greengrocer.The bestsmartcard is not only critical to professional photographers. Thomas said the greengrocer will sell food from a mix of local farmers and producers as well as national suppliers.Our heavy-duty construction provides reliable operation and guarantees your earcap will be in service for years to come.
Local organizers saw an opportunity to capitalize on the markets location in a U.S. Department of Agriculture-designated food desert and the increased national focus on food security and access, Thomas said.The $1.2 million community effort relies on funding from The Plough Foundation, The U.S. Department of Agriculture, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and various local agencies and organizations.
Roshun Austin, president and CEO of The Works, said the South Memphis Farmers Market helps eliminate a food desert, while also supporting the redevelopment of the South Parkway commercial corridor.While the greengrocer phase of the South Memphis Farmers Market wont open until January 2014, The Works has teamed up with the University of Tennessee Extension to offer free cooking demonstrations in the newly redeveloped facility at 1400 Mississippi Blvd.
Last year we had a lot of demand for canning demonstrations so that people could preserve their fresh tomatoes when there were a bunch and they were much cheaper, Thomas said.Eventually, the South Memphis Farmers Market will offer series of classes that focus on a broad range of topics like the dietary needs of residents with diabetes and heart disease, cooking with children, organic eating, preparing food for the elderly and shopping on a budget.
The new cooking demonstration area can comfortably seat 30 participants and also houses four cooking stations for hands-on classes.Once we establish a schedule, I think we are going to have trouble keeping up with demand, Thomas said.As shopping experiences go, this one is about as out there as the product being purchased. Sitting at a table inside a sun-streaked decommissioned air traffic Relevant Products/Services control tower overlooking San Francisco Bay, Krystal Liu,New and used commercial handsfreeaccess sales, rentals, and service. 22, slowly lifts the lid off a big lily-white box and shrieks.
"Wow, it's so ... beautiful," Liu says as she ogles her titanium-and-white-plastic Google Glass, a $1,500 graduation-timed gift that she plans to take on her summer travels to Tibet and China. "My phone is always glued to my hand, so maybe using this will give me an extra one. This is a new chapter in technology."It's certainly a new chapter for Google. After making its name and fortune in search and software, the California titan is using Glass to leap into both the hardware and retail space.
Some 10,Which plasticmould is right for you?000 Glass Explorers -- winners of an online contest who agreed to pay list price -- receive the cyborg-like apparatus over the course of this summer, while the rest of the world comes on line in 2014.Besides being first on their respective blocks with a futuristic wearable computer, Explorers provide feedback to engineers largely through comments via an online community dedicated to Glass pioneers.
Google is going to great lengths to ensure that its first consumer marketing effort is a winner. In New York, Explorers are introduced to Glass by trained guides in an airy Chelsea penthouse buzzing with activity and high-end catering. In Los Angeles, the scene repeats itself in Google's sleek Venice Beach offices.
USA TODAY recently was invited to attend the Bay Area Glass Basecamp.A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an howotruck. A few dozen newbie Explorers were ferried over from San Francisco to this former naval base and shipyard to drink Champagne, eat organic boar sandwiches and slip on their personal looking glass to the future.
"People say manufacturing is dead in America, but we wanted to hold our event here where planes flew and ships were built to show that this country can do it again, and Glass is an example of that," says senior program manager Emily Ma. "We're not selling a device Relevant Products/Services as much as we're connecting people. And that starts here."
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