Chicago is reaping the benefits of the Obama administration’s healthy-food initiatives, announcing Friday a partnership between the CTA and a non-profit to bring fruits and vegetables to Chicago’s South Side “food deserts,” which officials said will double the number of people now being served.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a $45,000 award Friday to Fresh Moves, a non-profit service that brings produce via a “Mobile Market Bus” to the West Side, serving about 8,500 people.
A second bus will now be added, under the grant, that’s expected to boost the number of people served to 17,000. The second bus should start operating in the fall, said Steven Casey, a co-founder and board president of Fresh Moves, which is featured in Michelle Obama’s new book,
American Grown , about the White House Kitchen Garden.
Casey said Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s call for four more buses, for a total of six, could meet the city’s food-access challenge.
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