What Does Hunger Look Like?

Yesterday the Tulsa World, our local paper, published a front-page story describing the huge increase in the amount of food the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma distributed to local food pantries in recent months.  Food pantries are the entities that get the food into the hands of people – so the article included a [...]

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Moveable Oases for the Food Desert

Some of the innovation gang headed over to a local taco stand for lunch to enjoy the weather and much talked about experience by the local media of late. When we came back, I had an a-ha moment of why doesn’t Tulsa introduce some sort of traveling fruit and vegetable truck in our food deserts? Since [...]

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Food Deserts or Food Swamps?

Ezra Klein, a health policy blogger for the Washington Post, links to a new report from the Food and Drug Administration examining the problem of food deserts – places that lack access to full-service grocery stores and the fresh produce they sell. This isn’t really a food equity blog, but since I recently posted on [...]

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New Oases in the Food Desert

The New York Times reports on that city’s efforts to bring fresh produce to so-called “food desert” neighborhoods. The city launched an initiative called Green Carts, which created licenses for 1,000 new food vendors (carts) provided that they sell only fresh fruits and vegetables and that they locate in the designated food deserts, such as [...]

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Westside Harvest Market Opens (Grandly) Saturday

The Westside Harvest Market (2232 S. Nogales Ave) is having its grand opening celebration this Saturday from noon to 3pm. They’ve actually been open for a while now, but now that the Eugene Field neighborhood’s first grocer can accept food stamps and WIC, they’re having a big to-do.
The event will feature free food (hot dogs [...]

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Fresh Food and Groceries Return to Eugene Field

The Harvest Tulsa grocery store will have its “soft opening” this Saturday, and will be open from 10am to 6pm. The store, located on Nogales just north of W. 23rd St., will make groceries and fresh food accessible to the residents of the Eugene Field area. The project is the result of collaboration between Global Gardens, some [...]

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Doubling Down on Nutrition

The Nudge blog digs up a story from the Washington Post about reforming the food stamps program to better promote nutrition. Many anti-hunger advocates have opposed placing restrictions on the use of food stamps based on nutritional content, arguing that it’s too difficult to classify so many foods and that many food stamps recipients have [...]

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Dept. of Unhealthy Correlations

Children of smokers are more likely to be hungry.
Not good.

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Returning to North Tulsa: Food?

The Tulsa World has an article up about recent moves by the Tulsa Development Authority to entice a new investor into replacing the grocery store formerly operated by Albertson’s, at Pine and N Peoria. This is great news, since there are no other full-size grocery stores on the north side of town – a huge [...]

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This makes me sad

The USDA has canceled Philadelphia’s universal school lunch program, saying that it cannot adequately monitor program performance, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. The program, which is the only in the nation, allows every child in Philadelphia Public Schools to receive a free lunch without having to apply for it. It’s well known that take-up in the [...]

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