A D.C. grant program is aimed at ending food deserts east of the Anacostia with small community food ventures.
In D.C., seniors often struggle to find food
Single mom Sherron Feggins has put half-of-a-year of work into what will be called Sha’s Creation, a start-up of healthy salads and lunchboxes that she hopes to sell to the schools in the area. “I remember when I first moved" to the area, Spears said. “One evening I decided to go to the little bodega because every neighborhood I thought had a bodega to get something I needed. I walked, and I walked, and there was nothing.”
“Food apartheid really speaks to a long history and legacy in this country of discrimination in communities of color that really make it difficult to attract retail in spaces and communities that are predominantly minority communities,” said Blackford, who founded Market 7, a food hall in Ward 7 that will open this year.Blackford has been working for four years in a plan to open a decentralized market that will showcase eight Black-owned businesses and a hydroponic farm at the Benning corridor.
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