http://www.newroots.org/

New Roots, Inc.

About New Roots, Inc.

Just like air & water, everyone has a right to fresh food. New Roots mission is to ignite community power for fresh food access.

In a nutshell, we are uniting communities to spread food justice.

The main fruit of our labor are the Fresh Stop Markets — farm-fresh food markets that pop up at local churches, businesses, and community centers in fresh food insecure neighborhoods. The food has been paid for in advance so that farmers don’t face the same degree of risk as they do with a standard farmers’ market.

We also facilitate other powerful food justice initiatives such as Kentucky Double Dollars for SNAP Benefits, the Fresh Stop Training Institute, and Food Justice Workshops, all of which are tied to our community-run Fresh Stop Markets.

Reviews

Communications Organizer

June 2019 - July 2019 Louisville, KY
“The internship allowed me a lot of freedom in customizing my job in a bunch of different disciplines and designing my experience to what skills I was interested in building. Also, the internship was mainly hands-on, with about only one day a week being spent in the office and the rest spent out in the community. I felt like there was a great distribution between mentorship and personal freedom so I learned a lot from observation as well as trial and error. ”
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