Fountain Heights opened its first grocery store in 70 years
Fountain Heights Farms Cooperative, which grew from a front-yard garden to 16 farm plots, opened We All Eat Market stocked with neighborhood-grown produce.
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Neighbors in Birmingham's Fountain Heights opened We All Eat Market, the neighborhood's first grocery store in 70 years, Bham Now reported. Fountain Heights Farms Cooperative grew from a front-yard garden to 16 farm plots, and the market is stocked with produce from that work. The 70 years are the gap without a grocery. The 16 plots are the farms the neighbors built, and the store is where that harvest is sold.
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Fountain Heights, a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, has a grocery store for the first time in 70 years, Bham Now reported. Neighbors built it. Fountain Heights Farms Cooperative started as a garden in a front yard and grew to 16 farm plots. The new shop is called We All Eat Market, and it sells produce grown in the neighborhood. Seventy years is how long the neighborhood went without a grocery. The plots are where the food is grown before it reaches the shelves.
- Why does it matter that a neighborhood grows the food its store sells?
- How can a front-yard garden turn into a market?
- What changes for a family when the nearest grocery is on their own block?
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