Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Produce at a Virginia grocery store in 2011. (Photo by Lance Cheung/U.S. Department of Agriculture) An interactive map of ...

Americans are dealing with food deserts while at the same time grappling with food inflation. New data uncovers alarming food ...

Food insecurity may seem to many of us like a problem for someone else, somewhere else. For others, it is an urgent and very personal worry. A map produced by the Institute for Local Self Reliance ...

Phillip Ramsey is a master gardener who’s planting fall produce in one of the community gardens he manages. It’s just two blocks from the Sun Fresh grocery store that operated at 31st Street and ...

Anga Sanders, Feed Oak Cliff’s founder and CEO, looks out at the Dallas VegFest, a health and food fair, at Kiest Park Recreation Center, 3081 S. Hampton in Dallas, on September 21, 2025. Steve Hamm / ...

Access to fresh produce is difficult in one Kansas City, Missouri, neighborhood — something that is an issue for many communities across the United States. That led a family of urban farmers to take ...

A new approach to identifying food deserts using grocery store purchase data suggests that store proximity is not the driver of nutritionally deficient diets – it is financial and social inequality.

Living in a food desert in Louisville isn’t just inconvenient, it’s costly, exhausting, and quietly harmful. In many neighborhoods, full-service grocery stores are scarce, transportation is limited ...

Phillip Ramsey, a master gardener, stands in the Ruby Jeans Community Garden at 29th Street and Wabash Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, where he grows and distributes fresh produce to neighbors ...

Louisville residents in food deserts face limited access to affordable, nutritious food and high costs from delivery apps. Strategies like utilizing food banks, micro-gardening, and batch soup-making ...