The winding road of a single item of produce, from Virginia to D.C., illustrates the chain of effort and dedication needed to feed people without enough to eat.
, but that more families are coming to rely on food assistance as a regular supplement to their lives.
Kuhn, who grew up in Fairfax as the fourth of nine children, was always interested in nutrition and medicine. She attended medical and science camps and thought that one day she’d become a pediatrician. She enrolledBut a class her junior year changed her course. The professor encouraged students to “go do something that makes a difference,” Kuhn said, and handed them a list of community groups to explore.
But Kuhn also believes in the dignity of choice. The farm sends out an annual survey to the households it serves to learn what kinds of produce they want.An hour and a half after leaving the farm, the delivery truck backed toward the loading dock at D.C. Central Kitchen on Second Street in Northwest Washington, a few blocks from Union Station. Staff quickly began carting off the green plastic bins of produce into the nonprofit’s kitchen, tucked in the basement of a homeless shelter.
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