Holly Freishtat: Baltimore's First Food Czar Bringing Healthy Options To Low-Income Neighborhoods

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The appointment of Holly Freishtat as Charm City's food policy director should be a lesson to other cities, [...] tasked with coordinating and implementing a comprehensive food policy for the city from her eighth floor offices in a drab, grime-covered building near City Hall. Her task is to promote farmers' markets and community supported agriculture, foster urban agriculture with new zoning to increase food production within the city, and better market and educate consumers about healthy foods.

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Comments

[momofvegasgirls]

07:31 PM on 07/13/2010

I love it!

[rikster]

04:00 PM on 07/03/2010

food czar...! OMG....Monsanto will have a field day.....!!

[Orwellian]

06:04 AM on 07/03/2010

Is all this good food going to be grown using GM seed?

[Amanda Donovan]

10:24 PM on 07/02/2010

the teabaggers will NOT be happy about this...

[palainausa]

10:24 AM on 07/04/2010

Neither would Thomas Jefferson. But you've got the goods on him, I forgot.