Department of City Planning

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Food Businesses

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Community

Grocery Shoppers Community Gardeners

How do we promote healthy eating in local Pittsburgh Communities?

Promote & EnableCommunity Gardening

“Lower income thinking isn’t for us”

“The only people in homewood that still cook are immigrants from the old country”

“If a child grows a tomato they are more likely to want to eat it”

“Just because an outsiderstarts a garden, doesn’t mean the locals will use it”

Growing food encourages healthy eating

Its easy to start a garden and hard to sustain it

Your community influences your life choices

Pittsburghers want to connect to where their food comes from

Having access to healthy food is not enough

Theres a learning curve to growing food

City resources for community gardening are difficult to find

City government is encouraging the use of vacant lot for productive community purposes

Theres a learning curve to growing food

I need healthy food to be affordbale first

“Eating healthy is hard” Community gardeners should organize to advance favorable policy

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