Will Walk for Food

Guest: Dominique Hazzard, Community Outreach Specialist, DC Greens If you lived two miles from the nearest grocery store and you didn’t have a car, how do you think that would affect your diet? Some 40-million Americans – mostly in low-income and minority neighborhoods – live in what’s called a food desert, or grocery gap, where it’s easier to get fruit punch soda than actual fruit. These grocery gaps have mini-marts, but nowhere to buy fresh produce.