"To me, gardening is also an art. Nobody does art like Mother Nature! Mother Nature designed all these plants. The garden is another palette, another canvas, and now you are using plants to paint that canvas and shape it the way you want to do it." - Ron Finley
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Detroit Community Gardens

The exodus of residents of Detroit has left the city dotted with crumbling buildings and empty lots. Many of those lots have been turned into community gardens like these outside of Downtown


 


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Are You In a Food Desert? Find out.

A food desert is a geographic area where affordable and nutritious food is difficult to obtain, particularly for those without access to an automobile. 

Food deserts usually exist in rural areas and low-income communities.

Source: Wikipedia 

 

Find out if your community is in a food desert here.

What is Food Insecurity?

1. food insecurity

   noun

   noun: food insecurity

   the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food:
   "more than 800 million people live every day with hunger or food insecurity as their constant companion"
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Did You Know? Eight states exhibited statistically significantly higher household food insecurity rates than the U.S. national average 2011-2013

Eight states exhibited statistically significantly higher household food insecurity rates than the U.S. national average of 14.6% 2011-2013 (note: Most are in the south):

•  Arkansas 21.2%
• Mississippi 21.1%
• Texas 18.0%
• Tennessee 17.4%
• North Carolina 17.3%
• Missouri 16.9%
• Georgia 16.6%
• Ohio 16.0% 

 Source: Feeding America
 

Hunger in America: Food Insecurity Fact 1

In 2013, 49.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 33.3 million adults and 15.8 million children.

Source: Feeding America