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Fulton Fresh fights 'Food Deserts' and Obesity with Mobile Farmer's Market
Fulton Fresh launches another season of delivering fresh fruits and vegetables directly to communities that need them the most.
The Fulton County Cooperative Extension launched another season of their Fulton Fresh Mobile Farmer's Market this week, and celebrated the addition of another bus to help with more routes.
The Fulton Fresh program provides access to fresh vegetables and nutrition education in communities designated as food deserts.
“We are pleased that we could expand the Fulton Fresh program to reach 13 communities versus the 4 communities served in our first season,” stated Menia Chester, Director of Fulton County Cooperative Extension. “Being able to provide access to fresh produce in communities not serviced by a major grocery store chain is important in our efforts to address health disparities in these neighborhoods.”
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Here is a Food Desert Locator, it is amazing how most of the minority areas have little to no access to fresh foods. How can we make eating healthy just as fast, cheap, and convenient as fast food has become? Tell me in the Comments or on Facebook!
The Fulton Fresh Mobile Farmer’s Market program operates June 13 – September 12 2012. Trucks will be at the following locations:
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1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS
10:00 am
The Shrine of the Black Madonna
946 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard
Atlanta, GA 30310
Palmetto Senior Center
510 Turner Avenue
Palmetto, GA 30268
1:00 pm
Berean Seventh Day Adventist
291 Hamilton E. Holmes Drive
Atlanta, GA 30331
Barge Road Highrise
2440 Barge Road SW
Atlanta, GA 30331
2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS
10:00 am
Benson Senior Center
6500 Vernon Woods Drive
Sandy Springs, GA 30328
St. Mark AME Church
3605 Campbellton Road SW
Atlanta, GA 30331
1:00 pm
Zion Baptist Church
888 Zion Circle
Roswell, GA 30075
1st & 3rd THURSDAYS
10:00 am
The HEALing Community Center
2600 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive SW
Atlanta, GA 30311
1:00 pm
Dogwood Library
1838 Donald Lee Hollowell Pkwy
Atlanta, GA 30318
Thomasville Library
1700 Thomasville Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30318
2nd & 4th THURSDAYS
10:00 am
Mt. Vernon Church
441 Martin Luther King Drive NW
Atlanta, GA 30313
Georgia Avenue Highrise
174 Georgia Avenue SW
Atlanta, GA 30312
1:00 pm
New Life Covenant Church
575 Travis Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30318
Three additional locations will be announced at a later date.
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