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<title>Irrigating a rural &quot;food desert&quot;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ (Oct 19, 2012) You may have heard about &quot;food deserts&quot;, low income areas in cities where supermarkets won&apos;t open because they won&apos;t make enough money. Area residents struggle to find affordable and fresh fruits and vegetables. Food deserts are widely considered to be one cause of America&apos;s obesity epidemic.It turns out rural areas have &quot;food deserts&quot;, too - even when there&apos;s a roadside farm stand right down the road, and the USDA&apos;s food desert map shows much of the rural North Country falls into that category.Cornell Cooperative Extension recently won a $96,000 grant to try to improve both consumer access to fresh fruits and vegetables and local farm production. Jefferson and Lewis County Extension Research Educator Amanda Root spoke with David Sommerstein. [<strong><a href="http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/20695/20121019/irrigating-a-rural-quot-food-desert-quot">full story</a></strong>]]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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