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🚨 Produce Plus enrollment starts May 1st!
Learn more: freshfarm.org/blog/food-acce…
@DCHealth Produce Plus is now run by FRESHFARM. Please follow @FRESHFARMDC for updates!
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FRESHFARM has been chosen to lead a D.C. program that gives low-income residents a weekly stipend to buy fresh food at farmers markets across the city. dcist.com/story/21/11/11/fre…
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If you are not a scientist, and you disagree with scientists about science, it’s actually not a disagreement. You're just wrong. Science is not truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.
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When it comes to the #climatecrisis, we know that some communities are being hit much harder than others. Here’s one story from Alaska that really proves the point. buff.ly/34yQf3F
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A drought like that of the 1930s is now twice as likely due to climate change. buff.ly/2Qgmmlf @WBUR
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“Food is expensive. The WIC program, with the type of food I can get for her, it helps. She’s a healthy little girl.” - Patricia Collins on raising her 3-year-old granddaughter on a tight budget. buff.ly/3wS2kh9
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We join @sharefoodphilly in mourning the passing of Steveanna Wynn, who led Share’s fight against hunger for 30+ years. Our early days were spent distributing out of Share's warehouses. We are indebted to them always, + forever inspired by Steveanna's spirit of community!
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Here's why we should care more about fungi. buff.ly/3vhhE62
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How using commercial bumble bees as pollinators is putting wild bees at risk buff.ly/3eyFYdU
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Follow this thread for food distributions this week by our partners: 2/8-2/14
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Putting Kamala Harris as VP into perspective.See the red box? Until then, she would have been enslaved.See the blue box? Until then, she couldn’t vote. Yellow box? Until then, she had to attend a segregated school.
The green one? Until then she couldn’t have her own bank account
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What we learned in 2020? That oil is worthless in a society without consumption. That healthcare has to be public because heath is public. That 50% of jobs can be done from home while the other 50% deserve more than they’re being paid. That we live in a society, not an economy.
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Monday morning and Operation Turkey drop is still going thanks to @dcck and @Albertsons. Stored these at @ArcadiaFood’s farm all weekend and they’re headed to an apartment complex we’ve identified as having families in need. Half a ton of 🦃 in 22 seconds.
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With nearly 24 million American adults reporting they don’t have enough to eat, anti-hunger groups are urging the president-elect to expand SNAP, WIC and Pandemic EBT. buff.ly/3kt30SW @washingtonpost
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A new survey shows that industrial agriculture’s failure to protect animals and workers during the #COVID19 crisis has driven broad public concern, changes in consumption habits and a swell of support for factory farming reform. Learn more at aspca.org/covidsurvey #FarmReform
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Voters pick our leaders, they don’t pick us. We showed up and now election officials are hard at work counting our votes like they always have. We trust these experts and counts to confirm the will of the people to let us move forward together. #TogetherWeVote #EveryVoteCounts
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NEW: Judge Amy Coney Barrett failed to disclose to the Judiciary Committee her participation in a 2006 two-page ad in the South Bend Times calling for Roe v. Wade to be overturned and ending the “barbaric legacy” of the law, two Democratic committee aides confirm to NBC News