By Emily Kenny and Justin Velasquez
March 21, 2023
A nonprofit is stepping up to fill a void of fresh produce in Syracuse’s Valley neighborhood, where the nearest grocery store is two miles away.
Food Access Healthy Neighborhoods Now organized a winter market last month in the Valley Plaza on Syracuse’s Southside to combat food access issues that stem from the 2018 departure of Tops from the plaza.
People catch up inside the winter market. (Emily Kenny/Spectrum News 1)
“It’s far away,” Rhonda Vesey, chairperson of FAHNN, said. “If you walk, it’s going to take you at least a half an hour and then what are you going to do? Bring home one bag of groceries?”
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