Can community gardens and farmers' markets relieve food desert problems? A study of Edm... - 0 views
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that neighborhoods that have poor access to supermarkets also tend to have limited access to community gardens.
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sconzy on 12 Oct 14Even though the goal of gardens it to provide healthy, nutritious and fresh food for people who live in neighborhoods that are food desert, the location of the community garden can not be access by all that need it.
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The term “food desert” has frequently been used to describe situations in which consumers lack access to affordable nutritious food, typically a populated low-income area with limited access to full-service supermarkets
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Food desert is referred to as low income communities in which its people don't have easy accessibility to healthy and fresh food to grocery stores.
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considered low income and high population density as indicators of high need. In addition, we introduced low car access as an indicator of the challenge of getting access to healthy food.
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