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Food
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07.22.10Barton predicts Food Lion store will be an oasis in a food desertTom Barton wrote about the new Food Lion supermarket, slated for construction on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, in his Savannah Morning News Column yesterday and reveals it was his first encounter with the concept of a food desert, which he describes as "an area where residents must travel vast distances to do their grocery shopping." Perhaps a better name for this neighborhood and others like it is a food swamp, "a geographic area where the overabundance of high-energy foods (for example, caloric snacks sold at convenience stores) inundate healthy food options." Whatever the term, studies have linked the preponderance of ...
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03.18.10Bamboo Farm Spring Festival presents opportunity to show support for threatened programThe 16th Annual Spring Festival at the University of Georgia's Bamboo Farm and Coastal Garden on March 20 provides a great excuse to visit the largest collection of bamboo specimens available for public viewing in North America and maybe even buy some to take home at the plant sale. Also worth checking out is the Xeriscape demonstration garden. The festival takes place from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. It's a critical time for this important resource. The Bamboo Farm, which attracts 120,00 visitors a year and employees nine people, has been identified as a potential victim of the latest round of ...
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03.17.10Sustainable agriculture conference to be held in Savannah, April 16 and 17The Greening the Southeast Regional Summit is scheduled for April 16 and 17 at the Coastal Georgia Center in Savannah. According to event organizers, the summit will, "bring together regional and national experts and grassroots organizations to provide training/information and successful models that focus on renewable energy sources for agriculture and forestry, to discuss how does sustainable farming and forestry impact climate change in the Southeast." Session topics include: Farming and Forestry Non-traditional Funding Sources Climate Change, Renewable Energy Sources, Food Access and Watersheds Successful Grassroots Models Green Action Plans for College Campuses For more information, visit the summit Web site.
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01.07.10Study links walkability and access to healthy food in SavannahMary Landers' story, Savannah examines making healthy food an easier choice, in the Jan. 6 Savannah Morning News describes a study commissioned by the Healthy Savannah Initiative, which documents the problem of food deserts in Savannah. Landers describes the study's methodology, which uses a variety of data sources "to come up with a block-by-block analysis of how convenient it is to choose fresh and healthy over fatty and fast. The group calculated a 'food balance' score for each city block by dividing the distance from it to any mainstream food provider (such as Kroger) by the distance to any fringe food ...
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11.21.09Forsyth Farmers Market season extended through Dec. 19Folks, who have made a stop at the Forsyth Farmers Market part of their Saturday morning routine, now have more chances to buy locally grown food directly from the farmers, who grew it. The market's season, originally scheduled to conclude today, has been extended for another month. What's the deal with the market? The Forsyth Farmers Market was organized by the Savannah Local Food Collaborative with the primary mission of making fresh, regionally grown produce easily accessible to the citizens of Savannah. The market is limited to agricultural and horticultural products. Located near the tennis courts at the south end of the ...
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