Re/Storing Nashville :: Building Access to Affordable Food

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Edgehill Food Now! Launches Edgehill Food Awareness Cookout August 31
Re/Storing Nashville (a program of Community Food Advocates) is collaborating with the Edgehill Family Resource Center and Organized Neighbors of Edgehill to launch a revitalized effort to bring affordable healthy food access to the Edgehill neighborhood through: Edgehill Food Now!
Food Deserts
In three Nashville neighborhoods putting decent food on the table is a constant struggle. The areas, known as “food deserts,” are filled with junk food and not much else. Predictably, residents who live in these neighborhoods are suffering from poor health. But, there’s a new effort to fight food deserts, as WPLN’s Anne Marshall reports.
Healthy food void may feed obesity
In Nashville's poorest communities, body mass indexes, a critical weight to height ratio and measure of health, are on average higher than in other neighborhoods.And there are hints that the reason for that difference may not lie simply between individual plates and mouths, but in what food can be found closest to Nashville's poorest homes.
Martha O'Bryan Center launches healthy food plan
It’s easy for Vernell McHenry to buy a bag of potato chips and a coke in her East Nashville neighborhood. It takes much more effort to shop for a fresh bunch of broccoli or a fuzzy ripe Georgia peach.

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Restoring Nashville is a faith-based movement for food justice in Nashville advocating for increased access to affordable healthy food for all of Nashville. Re/Storing Nashville is a program of Community Food Advocates. Support for this project was provided by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

The Community Food Advocates brings people together to create and sustain a secure and healthy food system for their region, from production to consumption.

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