“Jessica Paquette arrived at the Arlington Avenue dollar store around noon on a recent Wednesday. She needed to buy milk. The 30-year-old mother of two walked through the aisles stocked […]
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Help protect public transit in Allegheny County food deserts
Protect access to jobs and healthy food in the Mon Valley by showing support for the 61 A/B/C.
Pittsburghers want to fight food deserts with urban farms, mobile markets and community
“[Just Harvest] is partnering with semi-finalist Economic Development South on a project to revitalize Clairton, a food desert about 15 miles south of Pittsburgh. According to EDS, the closest grocery […]
Mapping hunger: Where are Pittsburgh’s food deserts?
Larimer is a neighborhood of opposites: Sitting on the southern border is the booming Bakery Square development, filled with shops, restaurants and Pittsburgh’s Google offices, a glowing symbol of the […]
Hunger Awareness Month: Pittsburgh leads the nation in food deserts
One of the most basic causes of hunger is the lack of access to food. The problem of food access springs from the double whammy of financial hardship and physical […]
Federal farm bill to alleviate food deserts
The farm bill signed into law Friday includes a $125 million initiative based on a program that started in Pennsylvania. The bill authorizes funding for the Healthy Food Financing Initiative […]
Food Deserts
On June 7, 2013 Just Harvest hosted A Community Forum on the Food Desert Problem Full Report Executive Summary Among cities of its size, Pittsburgh has the highest percentage […]
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County food deserts located
Clairton is separated from the Giant Eagle in Elizabeth by the Monongahela River. The nearest source of groceries to Manchester is 1.4 miles uphill. From the center of Millvale, the […]
Community Food Access
A 2012 federal report found that among cities of its size, Pittsburgh had the highest percentage of people – nearly 1 in 2 – residing in areas with low supermarket […]
Fresh Corners: Bringing healthy food to corner stores
In 2015, Just Harvest and the Allegheny County Health Department launched Fresh Corners, a healthy corner store initiative to improve access to fresh food in under-served Allegheny County neighborhoods. The […]
