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#SecuringtheBag: Amish farmers, arabbers provide infrastructure solutions to Baltimore food deserts
(Courtesy photo) PK Semler Special to the AFRO The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Clagett Farm and iconic Baltimore arabbers sourcing fresh produce from Amish and Mennonite farms in Lancaster, Pennsylvania have for years been solving the number one cause of Baltimore’s food desert and insecurity: Infrastructure. In fact, American small and midsize family farmers receive less […]
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#SecuringtheBag: Baltimore’s hackers show old school is new school in delivering the goods
PK Semler Special to The Afro Baltimore’s Hackers – the informal network of neighborhood drivers that serve seniors and others stranded in the city’s notorious food deserts – have been providing an essential community service long before the arrival of Silicon Valley-based rideshare concerns of Uber and Lyft. The neighborhood hacker can be seen outside […]
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#SecuringtheBag: Arabbers fill food void in Baltimore
The Baltimore tradition of arabbers (pronounced: A-rabbers) dates back shortly after the city’s founding in 1729 and today’s closely knit group of arabbers are the last door-to-door food merchants in urban America. (Courtesy photo) By PK Semler Special to The AFRO Baltimore’s iconic arabbers, a multigenerational group of city natives who use horse drawn carts […]
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#SecuringTheBag: Baltimore food deserts can become opportunities
By PK Semler Special to the AFRO Nothing better defines the disparities of urban America than the rowhouses of Baltimore encircled by food deserts as their neighborhoods sit in the shadows cast by the opulent inner harbor skyscrapers that hold powerhouses of the financial industry. The term food desert — originally coined in the 2015 seminal […]