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Real Food is More Available Than Ever!


There are now more than 6,000 farmers markets nationwide (Source: www.ams.usda.gov)— about a 250 percent increase since 1994. They’re searchable too, thanks to the USDA. 

(Community Supported Agriculture programs — CSAs — and food coops are also searchable, courtesy of  localharvest.org  .)

And increasing efforts are being made to get that food to the people who really need it: Wholesome Wave, for example, began a voucher program in 2008 that doubles the value of federal food stamps (SNAP) at participating farmers markets; that program has grown more than tenfold in less than three years. (http://wholesomewave.org/what-we-do/double-value-coupon-program/)