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4 Ways you can help fight hunger in your community

November 29, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / November 22, 2017

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

GIVING IS ALWAYS IN SEASON

On delivery day last week, the day before Thanksgiving, one of our neighborhood Market Managers, Nickie, posted this on Facebook:
“I’m volunteering with the 25 Project to provide meals to roughly 500 homeless living in shelters and tent cities in DC and Northern Virginia tomorrow. I reached out to the good people at Seasonal Roots to see if they could send some surplus veggies my way, and boy did they…

Continue reading about fighting hunger while eating local, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.

Want to help feed hungry local families?

June 14, 2017/in Newsletter Archive /by Veggie Fairy

EAT BETTER LIVE BETTER NEWSLETTER / June 14-15, 2017

Tips, hacks, recipes, stories, and the weekly special all help you eat better live better with fresh local food!

As you read this, nearly a million of your fellow Virginians don’t know where their next meal is coming from. That’s more than 10% of our population. (More on this at vafoodbanks.org.) On top of that, many hungry people live in “food deserts”, neighborhoods with little or no access to healthy fresh food. So where will their next truly nutritious meal come from…?

Continue reading about how you can help feed hungry local families, below, or view this issue as a PDF with clickable links.