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Market Match: Making Fresh and Healthy Food Affordable

December 15, 2020December 8, 2014 by Brie Mazurek

Started by Roots of Change in 2009 and now administered by the Berkeley-based Ecology Center, Market Match is a statewide healthy food incentive program that aims to improve the health of low-income communities by incentivizing shoppers to buy produce at farmers markets.

The Wheels on the Farmstand Go Round and Round: Arcadia’s Mobile Market

December 15, 2020January 8, 2014 by Sarah Zobel

Pamela Hess, executive director of the Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture, affectionately refers to the organization’s Mobile Market, a 28-foot rolling farmstand, as a “big crazy hippie bus.”