Ever wonder what these food deserts the political class is talking about actually look like in person? Well here you go Tragedy: A Food Desert Driving Tour of West Knoxville. Each location begins with a zoom from the USDA food desert atlas, then transitions to a Google Earth view, followed by a drive-by video of each location. Harvest Ch

Knoxville, Tennessee's oldest food co-op, and the only community owned food co-op in the State is in the middle of a food desert. As it turns out, nearly the whole city of Knoxville, and not much of the surrounding county, is a USDA food desert of one level of another. The co-op responded: "Our co-op is considered a small grocery store (not a large grocery store or supermarket), so the USDA, Treasury and HHS d

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I just heard about the Department of Agriculture's "food desert" map, so I decided to take a peek at the most prosperous part of Knox County, TN. The first two "deserts" I noticed were the homes of large grocery stores, or right next to large grocery stores. By "right next to" I mean literally across the street. One of the "deserts" has both a Super Walmart and a Sams Club anchoring its corner,