Baltimoreans who work on food policy say that relentless experimentation has taught them a lot. One of the big lessons is to think small — because solutions that work in one neighborhood don’t always work in another.
Meanwhile, Freishtat’s office is working to spread food-policy innovations across the city and beyond. The city’s new tool is the Healthy Food Priority Area Fund, which will give $140,000 in grants to neighborhood nonprofit programs in 2020, including the FreshCrate program and an alliance of urban farms.
“Rather than having a one-size fits-all model in Baltimore, we’re really trying to nurture and support a community-based strategy,” Freishtat says, “so that over in Cherry Hill, it maybe looks a lot different than [on] York Road.” This stand will receive a grant from the city later this year . It’s operated by No Boundaries Coalition, a 13-year-old advocacy group in West Baltimore. About 40 percent of its 165 to 200 weekly customers pay with EBT, the electronic version of food stamps.
Jones, 29, a former urban farmer herself, says she aims to make Fresh at the Avenue a dignified, positive place to shop. That’s important in a neighborhood where many shops closed during the 2015 riots and some didn’t return, where churches functioned as spots for food giveaways in the days after the unrest, where fresh food is scarce and supermarkets are a long bus or subway ride away.
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