Whole Cities | Healthy Food for All

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Hear from Whole Cities community partners to learn about healthy food access and find out what happens when everyone has a seat at the fresh, healthy food table.

Episodes

  1. Meet Dr. Akua Woolbright of Let's Talk Food

    05/11/2021

    Meet Dr. Akua Woolbright of Let's Talk Food

    Dr. Akua Woolbright, Ph.D., is an authoritative expert on nutrition with a passion for helping individuals and communities create healthier lives. Her extensive work in underserved communities has empowered people of all ages to overcome harmful eating habits and to prevent and reverse disease through plant-based diets.  As National Nutrition Program Director at Whole Cities Foundation, in addition to teaching weekly classes in Newark, New Jersey, and the Englewood community in Chicago, Dr. Woolbright runs the foundation’s Let’s Talk Food Nutrition and Culinary Education Center in Midtown Detroit, where hundreds of students attend healthy eating lectures, cooking demonstrations, and support groups each week.

    15 min
  2. Meet Landmark Training Development Company | Memphis, TN

    04/23/2021

    Meet Landmark Training Development Company | Memphis, TN

    Landmark Training Development Company from Memphis, TN has been a Whole Cities Community First Grant partner from 2018-2020. Listen to an audio story to learn about their urban farm, year-round indoor farmers market and several gardens which contain a catfish pond, fruit tree orchard, chicken coop, beehives, hydroponics and four high tunnels. Learn more about the Whole Cities Community First Grant here.

    5 min
  3. Meet Wasatch Community Gardens | Salt Lake City, UT

    09/23/2020

    Meet Wasatch Community Gardens | Salt Lake City, UT

    Get to know Wasatch Community Gardens in Salt Lake City, UT.  Since 1989, they have offered garden space, educational programs, and community events to empower people to grow, harvest, preserve, and prepare fresh, healthy food.  Learn more at https://wasatchgardens.org/.

    3 min
  4. Meet Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture | Atlanta, GA

    09/23/2020

    Meet Truly Living Well Center for Natural Urban Agriculture | Atlanta, GA

    Get to know Truly Living Well in Atlanta, GA, committed to growing food, connecting people to healthy food, and building equitable and sustainable food communities. Their work includes Farmers' Markets, Grower Boot Camps, Growing Families and the Farm on Wheels mobile market. Learn more at https://www.trulylivingwell.com/.

    4 min
  5. Meet Roots Rising | Pittsfield, MA

    09/23/2020

    Meet Roots Rising | Pittsfield, MA

    Get to know Roots Rising in Pittsfield, MA. On a mission to empower youth and build community through food and farming, their vision is to lift up teens as community changemakers and to strengthen the local food system through the transformational power of meaningful work. Learn more at https://www.rootsrising.org/.

    3 min
  6. Meet Hebni Nutrition Consultants' Fresh Stop Bus | Orlando, FL

    09/23/2020

    Meet Hebni Nutrition Consultants' Fresh Stop Bus | Orlando, FL

    Get to know the Fresh Stop Bus, a Whole Cities Foundation Community First Grant partner in Orlando, FL. Since 2015, this mobile market has served 16 Orange County neighborhoods with barriers to healthy food access. In addition to being a resource for fresh fruits and vegetables, the bus also offers free nutrition information and free recipe cards.  Learn more at https://www.thefreshstopbus.com/.

    4 min
  7. Whole Cities Foundation | Healthy Food for All

    07/30/2020

    Whole Cities Foundation | Healthy Food for All

    Hear from Whole Cities Foundation community partners, Footprint Farms and Newark Science and Sustainability, to learn about healthy food access and find out what happens when everyone has a seat at the fresh, healthy food table.

    15 min
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