UW DEOHS

uwdeohs.bsky.social

09 December 2025 00:17

As a former food regulator for @wadepthealth.bsky.social, faculty Emily Hovis wants to make sure community fridges are safe. She joined a pilot project with UW Urban Freight Lab and others to help the sites run more efficiently and safely using smart sensors. deohs.washington.edu/hsm-blog/com...

Marcia Caton Campbell

mcc51.bsky.social

06 September 2025 00:33

And, it’s helpful for students to interrogate why we call areas “food deserts,” which is such a pejorative term. Neighborhoods are often rich in food resources beyond conventional grocery stores (e.g., bodegas, community gardens, urban farms) that you have to look a little harder to see.

Marcia Caton Campbell

mcc51.bsky.social

06 September 2025 00:32

USDA-designated food deserts are a useful point of comparison, if those maps are still available. They may have been purged from USDA’s website. I haven’t looked at that for a while.

Marcia Caton Campbell

mcc51.bsky.social

06 September 2025 00:32

Mine is more policy oriented. It’s that we labeled neighborhoods incorrectly as “food deserts,” when it was really food apartheid that was being practiced. A way for students to see this is to look at old redlining maps and overlay areas commonly designated as food deserts. They’re often the same.

Sarah Taber

sarahtaber.bsky.social

23 August 2025 15:30

Bill Marler has been low-key keeping the US food system functional more or less by himself since the 1990s