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- Mar
- 2018
As the face of hunger has changed, so has its address. The town of Spring, Texas, is where ranchland meets Houston’s sprawl, a suburb of curving streets and shade trees and privacy fences. The suburbs are the home of the American dream, but they are also a place where poverty is on the rise. As urban housing has gotten more expensive, the working poor have been pushed out. Today hunger in the suburbs is growing faster than in cities, having more than doubled since 2007.
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- Feb
- 2018
It can be tempting to ask families receiving food assistance, If you’re really hungry, then how can you be—as many of them are—overweight? The answer is “this paradox that hunger and obesity are two sides of the same coin,” says Melissa Boteach, vice president of the Poverty and Prosperity Program of the Center for American Progress, “people making trade-offs between food that’s filling but not nutritious and may actually contribute to obesity.” For many of the hungry in America, the extra pounds that result from a poor diet are collateral damage—an unintended side effect of hunger itself.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to launch a two-year pilot program this summer with seven retailers to allow food stamp recipients the ability to purchase their groceries online.
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The New Year is here, and with the holiday season coming to a close many people are indulging in retrospection and reevaluating some of their life choices. New Year’s resolutions are the perfect opportunity for all those who have failed to start making the changes that they said they would make next week, next month, or perhaps when winter starts.
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Give and you shall receive is most definitely true, but giving is much more than receiving. When you discover that giving is better than receiving, you’re well on your way to truly living a life of purpose and worth. Lucky for us, we have a community that understands this to the core. During this busy […]
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- Oct
- 2017
FARM TO FORK is a seasonal newsletter from our Community Garden Network October Newsletter That’s a wrap! The end of October marks the end of the Victory Garden’s growing season and programming. While some say it was a hot summer, and others say it was a dry summer, we are going to call it a successful summer! […]
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- Sep
- 2017
FARM TO FORK is a monthly newsletter from our Community Garden Network September Newsletter Is it just us or did Fall come a little quicker this year? In fact, according to Michigan State University Extension, Michigan apples are a full week ahead of schedule this year! Meteorologists say that even our trees will begin to change […]
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- Aug
- 2017
FARM TO FORK is a monthly newsletter from our Community Garden Network August Newsletter Happy August! This month, The Victory Garden is excited to announce the addition of a perennial garden! Thanks to one eager volunteer, Gleaners and Shared Harvest Food Pantry will enjoy cool weather crops and perennials well past October and as early as […]
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- Mar
- 2017
The closing of Hartland Township’s WalMart Supercenter has already had a large effect in Livingston County — both with its residents and its local food pantries. The closing of the WalMart — one of three southeast Michigan store locations that closed in January as a result of the company’s global restructuring plan — is expected to result […]
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