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Griffin Lay has been dumpster diving in Gainesville for years and knows exactly what times the grocery store employees throw out their “imperfect” foods of the day, and swoops in to gain on the haul.
Read More »Mobile Grocery Bus Stops In Marion County To Help Seniors
Fresh Stop mobile market, Marion Senior Services and Florida Blue Key are combating food deserts with a grocery bus. The Fresh Stop bus serves fresh vegetables and fruits to seniors in low-income areas each month. “A food desert is a term that’s recognized by the USDA and it pretty much …
Read More »Three More After-School Supper Programs Opened In Alachua County
The after-school supper and snack program in Alachua County began in 2014 at C. W. Norton Elementary and has since expanded to 33 more locations including elementary, middle and high schools – with three added in the past month.
Read More »Windsor’s Zucchini Festival Celebrates 35 Years
In Windsor, the Zucchini Festival and the volunteer fire department are almost synonymous. The festival started out as a silly fundraiser for Windsor's fire department and May will mark the 35th time zucchinis take over the town.
Read More »For Windsor And Rochelle, Citrus And Weather Shaped Future
Once developed hubs for the citrus industry, these two communities now bear little resemblance to the agricultural centers they were in the mid-19th century. Instead, today they boast small-town values and fellowship as well as sleepy oak-canopied dirt roads.
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