Fresh Moves Mobile Produce Market
- Year
- 2011
- Category
- Concepts · Architecture +Farming
- Type
- Educational
- Status
- Built
Photographer: Architecture for Humanity ChicagoOver 500,000 Chicago residents live in food deserts, primarily on the south and west sides of the city. Communities in these areas bear the city's highest rates of obesity, diabetes and other diet related illnesses. In the absence of grocery stores, residents of these communities either travel extensively to buy food or settle for less healthy convenience store and fast food options that are more readily available.Fresh Moves is a platform for providing access to nutritious food and education in areas where it is not available on a local level.
Photographer: Architecture for Humanity ChicagoOver 500,000 Chicago residents live in food deserts, primarily on the south and west sides of the city. Communities in these areas bear the city's highest rates of obesity, diabetes and other diet related illnesses. In the absence of grocery stores, residents of these communities either travel extensively to buy food or settle for less healthy convenience store and fast food options that are more readily available.Fresh Moves is a platform for providing access to nutritious food and education in areas where it is not available on a local level.