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The August 20th edition of Street Sense (purchased from our regular vendor, Orin, at 11th & G) has an interesting article on a recently released website called DC Food Finder. This free service lets you enter a DC address, ward, or other location information and search for “healthy affordable food.”
To test this database we first selected Farmers Markets, Community Gardens and Urban Food Projects, and Nutrition and Cooking Classes, and then entered the Verizon Center for our location. The results pull up an interactive map marking the points that match your criteria, with a full text results list to the side.
It’s an interesting tool designed to help those in need find lower cost healthy food. One of our results was the PQ Farmers Market, which while healthy is certainly not what we’d consider cheap. But the majority of our results seemed to fit in quite well with the service’s mission. We were surprised to see how many results our test search pulls up within 2 miles of the Verizon Center.
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