PRX - Pieces for Tagging: food desert
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What is possible when we listen to Black people’s food stories beyond an all encompassing narrative of lack?
- Added: Sep 20, 2021
- Length: 54:00
Trader Joe's president creates a new non-profit grocery store that solves major American problems: wasted food and food desserts.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
In some US neighborhoods, it is easier to get a gun than fresh produce. In Los Angeles, Ron Finley is taking a stand - one garden at a time.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
There is a group of fruit loving, social-justice minded people who are breaking the law, all over San Francisco by illegally grafting fruit-bearing...
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 02:42
Reese’s work examines the structural forces that dictate food access in urban areas, and highlights the ways in which Black residents navigate the ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 53:59
The term food desert implies that it’s naturally occurring--but is it?
- Added: Dec 17, 2020
- Length: 53:58
Imagine eating at your favorite restaurant and being told that the salad on your plate was harvested from the cracks in the sidewalk in West Oaklan...
Bought by WESM 91.3 FM, WABE, and KUOW
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
This food-justice-related audio collage features the voices of Sir Charles Gardner and Carl Johnson, co-managers of Gardens United, a community gar...
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 04:52
Phalana Tiller talks with noted author Charles Handy and photographer Liz Handy about their latest work. She also interviews former Trader Joe's ex...
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 59:00
Michelle Obama’s plan to eliminate obesity includes partnering with major retailers like Walmart to bring affordable, healthy food to neighborhoods...
Bought by WCSU-FM and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Feb 07, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We go to Huron, California--a tiny farming community dubbed the' lettuce capital' of the U.S. This rural region in the fertile, sun-baked Central ...
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 2
A look at a project bringing healthy food to low income neighborhoods in Oakland, California.
- Added: Nov 05, 2009
- Length: 04:45
The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also ex...
- Added: Nov 03, 2009
- Length: 29:00
