Farms: Living In a Food Desert Documentary
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Across Virginia - from Hampton to Richmond, Petersburg to Lynchburg to Wise County and all points in between - approximately 17.8 percent of Virginia's population live in food desert. This documentary was produced by VSU as part of a study on food insecurity in the College of Agriculture. Produced by Jesse Vaughan & Cedric Owens - Co-Producer Dr. Jewel Hairston - Narrator Daphne Maxwell Reid
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The term 'food desert" was new to me until I clicked to watch this. It's nice to see the community efforts leading to something great. I wish you all every success with this endeavour. The Netherlands.
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thank you for making this powerful documentary dealing with food insecurity
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I bet if grocery stores got a tax break for opening up shop in shitty areas, there would be grocery stores within walking distance again.
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permaculture
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Omg, get some chickens and start gardening ! Fresh Eggs, Fresh Chicken , Fresh veggies ! Ppl are so brainwashed and helpless 😩🔫
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This is an awesome perspective of food deserts! I can not wait to show it to my Civil Eats Club.
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Are the food crops 100% GMO-Free? Are they being propagated using non-seed techniques of all kinds to ensure against GMO pollen drift contamination. Are the soils treated with 5 to 10 kilograms of rock dust powders and mixed with 25% activated charcoal powder, or activated food grade or water utility grade activated carbon made from coal? Are the soils inoculated with GMO-Free natural genetic strains of nitrogen rhizobial bacterial inoculants and mychrorrizal fungi inoculants to activate the biogeochemical processes in the rock dust powder mixture and carbon powder mixture? Rock dusts allows the plants to survive climate change extremes caused by the natural solar Sun cycle process and produces several times more food by 4 to 5 times and accelerate the growth maturation process to produce 7 to 8 harvests per year depending on location and crops. The 24% carbon content on the soil prevents soil degradation and depletion and creates a benevolent soil microbe habitat for the beneficial soil microbes within the porous carbon's structure and increases yields by 880% or 8.8 times and people eating food raised on such soil claims they are never sick or as sickly again as before. The use of perennial living mulch allows greater rain water and moisture retention by the layer of mulch when it is periodicially mowed-mulched, greater nitrogen-fixation, and the humus produced can practically synthetize water under certain conditions. The use of alley tree cropping techniques using various kinds of protective trees can create micro-climates to increase yields.
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mmm, living in a food dessert
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Stores move away from black neighborhoods because of crime rampant shoplifting, fighting and other thug behavior.
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Why can't the big stores at least deliver to those areas? In the UK, all major supermarkets deliver to your home for just an extra £2-6, which is especially important for elderly and sick people who can't get around. The driver will even carry it all up the stairs for you
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Neither your U.S. government, nor your state, nor your big grocers are going to help you. You have only yourself. That's how it's always been. Always will be. YOU are your only way out. You MUST grow your own food.
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She complains about not having convenient stores that sell alcohol and cigs and how she wants fresh fruits and veggies yet she's smoking......
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And they're still voting for Crooked Hillary.
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this is bullshit! grow your own food.
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"Politicians don't do shit for us." Well Charlotte hit that nail right on its head.
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i couldnt help but notice the lady at the 3.10 mark complaining about the cost of food, and being on food stamps, while sitting in a room with 3 tv sets ? i could be wrong, and if shes doing it hard i dont want to hurt her in any way, but if im not mistaken about that then maybe priorities need to be got in order first ? just saying.
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We have access to good food stores, but with changing city demographics & new developments, they are often at least 3-4 km away. A few years ago a volunteer organization established mobile farmers markets that go to identified "food deserts" weekly to provide healthy options at affordable prices.
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The solution to this problem is simple. Change the zoning in these areas to residential/agricultural so people can grow their own food and keep small livestock like quail and chickens without getting evicted. Counties can also reclaim abandoned properties and convert them into community gardens and rent out plots. You can use food stamps to buy garden seeds. You can use containers to garden if you don't have access to land. You can even sell your excess produce 'under the table' to your friends and neighbors. The government is partly responsible for creating this problem. I doubt the government is going to find a solution.
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Very informative documentary, thank you!
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This is a worldwide problem. I live in Moscow, and there is a lot of areas, without vegetable departments. Low income cause of this problem. Volunteers on urban farms will not solve this problem. Every citizen in food desert should be a farmer for himself and grow carrots, cucumbers, radishes, beets, potatoes, etc. It does not require great skill and physical activity also improves the health of many of the aged and disabled people. Volunteers need to teach people how to grow a large crop of vegetables near the house. I see a girl who spends a day to bring two bags of vegetables for the people. This is ridiculous! It's PR but not the solution. Volunteering should be effective as any activity.