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Ietef Vita and his wife Alkemia Earth used the pandemic to support gardens across the country as grocery lines grew and communities needed access to healthful food.
Damon, who has led pop-up dinner series and worked as the culinary director of Cherry Bombe, had long noticed how difficult it was to access nutritious, affordable groceries in her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood. It was a void she knew she could help fill, building something that was “bred from the moment, but for forever.” The idea was the starting place for her organization, Kia Feeds the People Program, a budding nonprofit dedicated to putting quality produce and pantry items in the hands of underserved Black and queer and trans people of color (QTPOC) in Brooklyn. The best solutions...
While Virginia’s rate of food insecurity is estimated to sit around 11.9 percent, Charlottesville faces a rate of 17.5 percent.