Re/Storing Nashville is building a grassroots movement to ensure that ALL Nashvillians have access to affordable, healthy foods. We are creating a city-wide campaign to bring the issues facing food deserts to all of Nashville, through creative, youth, and interfaith programs.
We are working to reduce health risks - including obesity - facing residents of Nashville’s three identified “food deserts”: East Nashville/Cayce Homes, Edgehill, and North Nashville/Charlotte Ave.
What are we doing about it?
• Helping to create more direct public transportation routes to existing grocery stores from underserved areas.
• Developing tax and zoning incentives to bring grocery stores to neighborhoods without them.
• Creating understanding about food deserts from the neighborhoods to the entire city, making sure that we work together to solve the problem.
Re/Storing Nashville is a program of the Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee. Support for this project was provided by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.