CLO: Students will investigate their neighborhood and photograph images that depict everyday life. Students will use the design cycle to create a photoshop collages or monochromatic photos to raise awareness of the local food desert at ALHS and to influence thought or change. Requirements: Size 13x19 or 19x13 DPI: 150 Series: three photos Photoshop collage or monochromatic photos Text may be added to collage. All images must be photographed by you. Do not use images off the internet. They are of your neighborhood. They should tell a story. Photos must go together. A written reflection will also be required to express your point of view or solution. Here’s where Denver’s food deserts are, and what the city is doing about themIf you read about your city, you may have heard the term “food desert,” but unless it’s your business to know, you may not have heard a definition. If you live in one, you probably know it without having a textbook description.In the simplest terms, it means that it’s difficult for you to get to a supermarket. Maybe there’s a corner store a couple blocks away, but a grocery store that covers all your needs — especially when it comes to fresh produce and other healthy foods — is a hike. Here’s what the United States Department of Agriculture has to say about it: “While there are many ways to define a food desert, the Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Working Group considers a food desert as a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store.” Low access is defined as being “more than 1 mile from a supermarket or large grocery store in urban areas” or “more than 10 miles from a supermarket or large grocery store in rural areas.” That distance is calculated by measuring from the center of a one-kilometer square grid (confusing, I know) containing population estimates to the nearest supermarket or large grocery store. On the most local, grassroots scale, there are Denver’s community gardens. Denver Urban Gardens started with three gardens in the Highland neighborhood in 1985 — remember that it was a very different place then — and has since grown to include 157 community gardens across metro Denver. The gardens produce more than 610 tons of fresh produce annually with the help of more than 8,000 volunteers. And while these gardens serve areas of every income level, DUG does have programs that specifically help people with low access to fresh produce. Its Fresh Seeds & Transplants program, for example, serves more than 8,500 residents in need. Qualified applicants receive up to seven seed packets and four two-packs of transplants. Education is a priority at the gardens outside schoolyards, too. DUG offers community training programs in healthy cooking as well as gardening, and garden leaders help participants learn hands-on. “Community gardens are really wonderful places and it’s definitely about food access but there are so many other benefits" Why grocery delivery in Denver, from Amazon Prime Now and others, does not solve food insecurity. Grocery delivery services seem like a solution to help residents in Globeville and Elyria-Swansea, Westwood, Montbello and other food deserts access food.
But the arrival of Amazon Prime Now, Go Puff and other services that bring food to front doors does not end the desire or need for traditional grocery stores, said Blake Angelo, manager of food systems development for the city. Denver is kicking in $100,000 as part of its latest effort to address food insecurity in Globeville, Elyria-Swansea, Montbello, Westwood and other areas where access to groceries is limited.
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