Beyond Farmers Markets: Cities, States Champion Locally Grown Food

Stateline: Six years ago, only a few U.S. cities had food policy directors — strategists tasked with connecting communities with local farm products and improving access to food in underserved neighborhoods. Now, in line with a national push to improve access to healthy foods and support urban agriculture, nearly 20 cities have them.

“The issues with food are at times so big and so global and so complicated. But as a city, we can actually start to get our arms around it,” said Blake Angelo, who became Denver’s first manager of food system development last year.

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