Ahead of Thanksgiving, Ivy Lawrence-Walls of Ivy Leaf Farms and Jeremy Peaches of Fresh Life Organic Produce held a soft opening of Fresh Houwse Grocery, Houston Chronicle reports.
Before the opening of Lawrence-Walls and Peaches’ store, the farmers founded Black Farmer’s Box — a service that provides locally sourced produce for residents in food desert communities — according to Houston Chronicle. The venture soon poured into Fresh Houwse Grocery, which aims to combat the effects of Sunnyside being a USDA-designated food desert.
“It’s almost like history,” Peaches told the outlet. “It’s not every day you see farmers producing food and distributing it through a grocery store in the community they were raised in.”
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