Thursday, August 20, 2009

Good Veggie Truck

This takes me back to summers at least 35 years ago when bread and milk was sold from a truck at the beach where we were stayed. There was nothing like hearing a low booming voice early in the morning bellowing out "Milk Man!" "Bread Man!"

From the Christian Science Monitor...
Detroit has been called a “food desert” for its lack of chain stores that carry fresh fruits and vegetables. (An oft-quoted statistic for one neighborhood is 26 liquor stores but only one grocery.)

One group decided to do something about it this summer. The nonprofit Central Detroit Christian Community Development Corp., which runs its own produce market, Peaches & Greens. It also stocks a truck with edibles ranging from cabbage to corn grown in community gardens and takes them to inner-city residents.

Sorta like a Good Humor truck stocked with tomatoes instead of ice cream bars.

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