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Could urban farming provide a much-needed oasis in the Tulsa food desert?

Lieberman, Amy
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/25/tulsa-oklahoma-community-garden-urban-farming-oasis-food-desert

Publisher:  The Guardian
Date Written:  25/08/2016
Year Published:  2016  
Resource Type:  Article

Oklahoma is one of the most food insecure states in the US, where families struggle to buy enough healthy food. Locals are trying to ease poverty with community farming, but face difficulty in a city with a complex racial history

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Typical household incomes in north Tulsa hover at around $20,000, and dip lower in Turley, a community at the city’s northernmost edge. It’s not uncommon for families here to struggle to purchase healthy – or simply enough – food at the one full-service grocery store left in all of north Tulsa. Other people, unable to pay off former tenants' outstanding water or electricity bills, live with these basic amenities shut off so cannot cook.

The "urban gardening" trend, having taken off in the form of community and rooftop gardens from Asia to Europe, is seen as a partial solution to US food insecurity by some experts. In theory, local gardens can help people with low incomes and limited or uncertain access to nutritious food gain reliable sources of produce. Yet in Tulsa and nearby Oklahoma City, gardening initiatives such as the Newsomes' have a hard time overcoming the immediacy of people's hunger, and the complex racial history and financial constraints that divide this south-midwestern state.

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