Touch the Soil News #2047 (photo – Vegetables – Courtesy of USDA)
One of the larger Food Banks in America is the Tarrant Area Food Bank, located in Fort Worth, Texas. Serving a metropolitan county area of 2.2 million people. Recently, the Food Bank was awarded a multi-year grant to provide food-as-medicine meals. It took quite an effort to establish, but reveals the interest growing in the food-as-medicine movement. Might this approach work for an urban farm that established a “Fresh Produce-As-Medicine” platform – selling a group of vegetables (with recipes) that compliment as opposed to just selling produce by the single item? You can read the full story here:
https://foodbanknews.org/a-food-banks-five-part-food-is-medicine-plan/
