Karuna News: Not Your Typical Grocery Run
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Oct 6, 2021

 



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It was Hippocrates who once famously said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” This week, we travel around the world and witness the power of the spirit of generosity through food. In Poland, an ingenious farmer opens up a self-service mini grocery store along a footpath frequented by hikers. He leaves nothing more than a price tag for each item on sale and puts immense trust in strangers’ ability to pay an honest price for items that they pick up such as jams, berries and fresh juices. In neighboring Netherlands, a chain of grocery stores adds chat boxes at checkout counters. These are cleverly designed spaces for extending conversations with the elderly to combat loneliness that has been exacerbated by the pandemic’s intermittent lockdowns. In the US, where a staggering 17 million children reportedly go without food frequently, a rapper has opened up a free grocery store in a school, stocking specific food items that the children and their families can easily use to prepare simple, healthy meals. To top off the world tour of freely stocked grocery shelves, we glimpse into what the near future could look like through the world’s largest free, food forest in Atlanta, a bold project aimed at bringing healthy food within half a mile of nearly all of Atlanta's residents by next year. These stories remind us that our ability to nourish each other through sharing food is a common practice that brings us together all around the world.

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Posted by KarunaVirus on Oct 6, 2021