Liquor stores? No more. OK, they'll still exist, but some of them here in Detroit are starting to carry fresh produce, which is a big step toward improving the food systems.
Excerpt from
Super Market News:
Twenty corner stores here — mostly liquor or convenience stores — are
selling fresh produce through Detroit Fresh: The Healthy Corner Store
Project.
The project is the brainchild of Dr. Kami
Pothukuchi, associate professor of Urban Planning at Wayne State
University here, who launched it in 2008. Pothukuchi is the founder of
Seed Wayne, a grant-supported effort to bring sustainable food to Wayne
State and other Detroit neighborhoods. Seed Wayne is leading the Detroit
Fresh project in collaboration with Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Earth Works
Urban Farm and Eastern Market Corp.
"Our objective is to connect smaller stores
with wholesale produce distributors so they can buy fresh produce at
wholesale prices," she said.
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