Tag Archives: Food Deserts
How Do Farmers Markets Combat Food Deserts?
For our final Action Project in Policy for the year, we created groups to attend and document our experience at a public event which protected the commons. As a class, we decided that the commons were things, such as public squares, which everyone has the right to enjoy, but equally assume responsibility of that space. Read More…
Crossing The Food Desert: A Hoop Dreams Production
For my final project in Policy we created a documentary about food deserts in urban areas of Chicago. I created this documentary with SM, HP, and LN. For this video we focussed a lot on Link Up Chicago, a program that tries to get farmers market vendors to allow LINK to be used, in exchange for a lower Read More…