permaculture

["Mitch Triplett" <mtriplett@bctonline.com>]

Greetings!

 

Hopefully this will be helpful and/or informative to some of you out there.

 

Peace.

 

Mitch Triplett

Tri-Pearl Family Forest

Member - CCFFA/OSWA & OTFS

Associate Member - FSC

 

From: food_for_oregon-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu
[mailto:food_for_oregon-bounces@lists.oregonstate.edu] On Behalf Of Sharon
Thornberry
Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 6:20 PM
To: food_for_oregon@lists.oregonstate.edu
Subject: [Food_for_oregon] FW: FYI Food Atlas tool

To help community leaders identify the food deserts in their area, USDA
recently launched a Food Environment Atlas ( www.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/).
This new online tool allows for the identification of counties where, for
example, more than 40 percent of the residents have low incomes and live
more than one mile from a grocery store. Nationwide, USDA estimates that
23.5 million people, including 6.5 million children, live in low-income
areas that are more than a mile from a supermarket. Of the 23.5 million,
11.5 million are low-income individuals in households with incomes at or
below 200 percent of the poverty line. Of the 2.3 million people living in
low-income rural areas that are more than 10 miles from a supermarket, 1.1
million are low-income. 

 

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