SNAP and Health – Intricately Intertwined Over the past week, we’ve spent some time reading the December 2017 report from the Food Research and Action Center, Hunger & Health: The Impact of Poverty, Food Insecurity and Poor Nutrition on Health & Wellbeing. The findings are eye-opening – or, more to the point, they confirm what […]
Why We Need You to Support HIP Now The Massachusetts legislature is currently setting its budget priorities for the 2019 FY budget. We’re asking the legislature to include $6.2 million in the budget to support HIP for FY2019. Your legislators need to hear from you about the importance of HIP. Legislators have until this Friday, […]
Keeping up with food policy news isn’t always easy. With all the changes coming from Washington and the states (even Massachusetts isn’t immune), sometimes policy changes that affect the food environment fly under the radar. Often, policies seemingly unrelated to hunger prevention can have a profound effect on programs that fight food insecurity and promote […]
Throughout the month, we’ll be writing about food and anti-hunger programs and projects you can support with your time, your skills and your dollars, not just in December but year round. Each type of program has a specific focus and provides for specific needs. Today’s focus – five Worcester food pantries that provide food items […]
Over the years, we’ve published many posts about urban agriculture and its many contributions to resilient food system. They tend to get buried, but they offer so much food for thought. This morning, we’re taking a look back at older posts and pulling together a reading list about food resilience and the importance of urban […]
