Originally posted in Courier-Post by Kim Mulford Since Jorge Caba added a produce section to his grocery store on Carl Miller Boulevard, he’s watched his business grow. The broccoli, watermelon and oranges move quickly at The New Village Supermarket, as do the bananas and avocados.… SHARE:
READ MOREOriginally posted on nj.com By Rich Cuccagna The Greenwood Ave. Farmers Market at 427 Greenwood Avenue (located behind the Trenton Transit Center) opened with fanfare just a month ago, with area residents, local and state officials celebrating the first of its kind farmers market in Trenton. Providing easy access to healthy foods, as well as health screenings, music and physical activity for children and adults, the Greenwood Ave. Farmers Market has seen over 1200 customers and visitors since June 15. “The reception by the community has been outstanding,” said Marissa Davis, project manager, New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids-Trenton. “We’re here every Monday engaging local residents, and even area commuters who are stopping by on their way from the Trenton Transit Center located across the street. The location has proven to be very convenient; and because we are offering more than just the opportunity to purchase produce, visitors to the […]
READ MOREOriginally post on nj.com by Cristina Rojas | For NJ.com The Times, Trenton In an effort to fight obesity and promote healthy living, dozens of Trenton community groups have found strength in numbers by forming alliances and pooling resources. But now, the 40-plus groups will put their heads together to come up with long-term, sustainable solutions, thanks to a four-year, $200,000 grant from New Jersey Health Initiatives. The YMCA of Trenton, the lead partner in the larger Trenton Healthy Food Network, was one of 10 recipients chosen statewide to be a part of this new initiative. NJHI, a grantmaking program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, announced the grants Tuesday. “We put together the health dream team,” said Samuel Frisby, the CEO of the YMCA of Trenton and a Mercer County freeholder. He said he hopes the groups can continue the work they’ve begun but in a more collaborative way. […]
READ MOREoriginally posted in the Press of Atlantic City By THOMAS BARLAS, Staff Writer The baskets of apples, oranges and bananas are in plain sight for customers entering the Downtown Grocery and Deli on Wood Street. The location is perfect for enticing store customers to buy a healthy piece of fruit instead of an unhealthy snack, said Sara Paciocco, of the city’s Health Department. “It’s more available now that it’s in the open,” Paciocco said, adding she hopes more of the city’s mom-and-pop stores make the same kind of change. The Downtown Grocery and Deli is one of five local groceries participating in the New Jersey Healthy Corner Store Initiative. The program urges those stores to sell more fruit, fresh vegetables and other products lower in salt, sodium and fat. Officials with various health-related organizations visited the store Wednesday to help launch the program, which is also operating in Camden, Trenton, […]
READ MOREOriginally posted on 6abc.com By Nora Muchanic The sight of colorful, fresh produce was a big draw at the opening of the new Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market in Trenton, a venture designed to give local residents healthier choices and easy access to fresh food. “One out of every two children in the city were overweight or obese and when we started to really look at it, it’s really about access,” Sam Frisby of the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids. Many people can’t or won’t leave their neighborhood to find fresh produce. “Mostly what we see our corner stores that don’t have a whole lot of fresh fruits and vegetables having something like a farmers market is vital,” Jasmine Hall-Ratliff of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation said. Spearheaded by the New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids and several other groups, farmers will bring their just-picked goods to a parking lot at […]
READ MOREoriginally posted in Essex News Daily The New Jersey Healthy Corner Store Initiative announced on Tuesday, May 5, that it hosted state Sen. Ron Rice on a site visit at Newark’s Lucky Fox Market, 164 Irvine Turner Blvd., Newark Central Ward. The tour showcased the positive impact healthy corner stores such as Lucky Fox are making to increase people’s access to affordable, healthy food, as well as bolster economic development efforts by capturing retail dollars that would otherwise be spent outside of the community. The New Jersey Healthy Corner Store Initiative is a statewide program focused on increasing the availability and sale of healthy, affordable food in local stores and bodegas in communities that are underserved by supermarkets. To qualify as part of program, corner stores display sanctioned marketing materials — including recipe cards — to indicate healthy food options; introduce at least four new healthy food products from two […]
READ MOREoriginally posted on nj.com by Cristina Rojas | For NJ.com Phyllis Cooper has trekked to more than her share of farmers markets in search of fresh produce: the Trenton Farmers Market in Lawrence, across the river to Morrisville, Pa., and even the Columbus Farmers Market in Burlington County. And for Sue Baltrusitis, fresh fruits and vegetables were always a cab or bus trip away. Not anymore. They now have ready access to affordable, nutritious foods outside their Trent Center apartments, thanks to a new farmers market that opened Monday. “I couldn’t wait for it to open,” Cooper said. “Older people like myself, we need vegetables. Instead of eating things with sugar, we’ve got something that we really need for the body.” The Greenwood Avenue Farmers Market will be open every Monday at the corner of Greenwood Avenue and Hudson Street from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. It will run through Oct. […]
READ MOREOriginally posted on nj.com By Susan Sprague Yeske | For The Times We can only imagine the joy of America’s colonists when the first asparagus spears pushed out of the earth on a long-ago warm April morning. For them, it provided much-needed nutrients after a winter of deprivation; for us, it’s the sign that the spring harvest season is hitting its stride in New Jersey. Asparagus is a favorite vegetable here in the Garden State, eagerly awaited each spring. Its season began last week, when Terhune Orchards in Lawrence and Katona Farms in Crosswicks began cutting their first spears. That season will continue through May and possibly into June, with asparagus stalks sometimes growing six or seven inches on a single warm, sunny day. Terhune Orchards is the only local farm that allows customers to pick their own asparagus. Call to make sure there is enough in the fields for […]
READ MOREOriginally published in The Press of Atlantic City, Thomas Barlas-Staff Writer The baskets of apples, oranges and bananas are in plain sight for customers entering the Downtown Grocery and Deli on Wood Street. The location is perfect for enticing store customers to buy a healthy piece of fruit instead of an unhealthy snack, said Sara Paciocco, of the city’s Health Department. “It’s more available now that it’s in the open,” Paciocco said, adding she hopes more of the city’s mom-and-pop stores make the same kind of change. The Downtown Grocery and Deli is one of five local groceries participating in the New Jersey Healthy Corner Store Initiative. The program urges those stores to sell more fruit, fresh vegetables and other products lower in salt, sodium and fat. Officials with various health-related organizations visited the store Wednesday to help launch the program, which is also operating in Camden, Trenton, Newark and […]
READ MOREOriginally published in CourierPostOnline Assemblyman Louis Greenwald, D-Camden, and Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, D-Camden/Burlington, visited Camden’s Fayer’s Market Thursday, part of a tour to showcase efforts some corner stores are making to increase access to affordable, healthy food. The New Jersey Healthy Corner Store Initiative is a statewide program focused on increasing the availability of healthy, affordable food in local stores and bodegas. Currently, there are 80 corner stores participating in the initiative and the goal is to expand to approximately 150 corner stores in underserved New Jersey communities by year-end. Fayer’s Market currently participates in the New Jersey Healthy Corner Store Initiative and was one of the first stores that participated in the Camden Healthy Corner Store Network, a program funded by Campbell Soup Company’s Healthy Communities program. In 2013, New Jersey was one of six states that saw a slight increase in adult obesity, and the state’s rate of […]
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