Winter Market Produces More than Just Produce: Food Access Healthy Neighborhoods Now (Giving Voice)

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Photo from CNY Foundation's "Giving Voice" (Spring 2023)

Giving Voice Cover Story
Spring 2023

On a Sunday in January, Karen Harrison walked across the street from her home in Syracuse’s Valley neighborhood to the area’s first winter market. “I bought greens and onions, potatoes and garlic,” she said. “They’re good and fresh. I just went over there with my bags and filled them up and paid and went back home. It was that easy.”

The winter market, organized by Food Access Healthy Neighborhoods Now (FAHNN), runs the second and fourth Saturday of the month through April at an empty store in the Valley Plaza Shopping Center, 4141 S. Salina St.

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