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Halifax council will lend a bus to a mobile grocery store plan that hopes to bring fresh fruit and vegetables into food deserts.
A Halifax Transit bus will be seconded to the Mobile Market Project for 21 weeks. The Ecology Action Centre’s plan will sell healthy food to communities with no access to super markets.
Six communities are part of the project: Spryfield, Fairview, North Preston, East Preston, north-end Halifax and Dartmouth north.
Aimme Carson, community food co-ordinator for the Ecology Action Centre, said they’ll tailor the food to local appetites.
“One of the things we heard from the community is it’s very important to have culturally appropriate foods, so everyone will have input on what they want to see on the bus and we will do our best to make sure those foods are available,” she said.
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