Food Deserts

The Redbird Fresh Market is an example of what can happen when college students imagine — and then execute — an idea to fruition. The new student-led program is helping off-campus students gain easier access to healthy foods.

Senate Bill 850 would direct the state’s Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, or DCEO, to establish the “Grocery Initiative,” a program that would study “food deserts” in Illinois and provide grants to new or existing grocery stores in these areas.

A group of business owners and west Bloomington advocates has launched an effort to bring a full service grocery store and shopping plaza to that part of…

A group of business owners and west Bloomington advocates has launched an effort to bring a full service grocery store and shopping plaza to that part of…

Stakeholders from nonprofits, health care, government, education and more have been invited to a food summit in Bloomington next week.Organizer Martin…

GLT is reporting this week on why west Bloomington is a food desert and how different community organizations are working to fill the gap. This is part…

GLT is reporting this week on why west Bloomington is a food desert and how different community organizations are working to fill the gap. This is part…

GLT is reporting this week on why west Bloomington is a food desert and how different community organizations are working to fill the gap. This is part…

There’s an acre and a half of land adjacent to Sunnyside Park on the west side of Bloomington that, come summer, will transform into plots of garden-grown…