Food Security in Poughkeepsie, NY: A Conversation with Sarah Salem
Channel: Leonard Nevarez
Date: 12/04/2018

Sarah Salem is director of Development at Dutchess Outreach and a City of Poughkeepsie council member (Ward 2). She spoke with Professor Leonard Nevarez and the Sustaining Local Agriculture class (Environmental Studies 291) class at Vassar College on April 11, 2018.

0:00:00 introducing Sarah Salem
0:00:45 what Dutchess Outreach does
0:04:40 mobile farmers market
0:06:56 gardening on urban brownfields
0:09:09 Dutchess Outreach's local farming partners
0:10:19 agricultural gleaning
0:11:54 Dutchess Outreach's garden
0:14:20 land sovereignty
0:15:55 health care "prescriptions" for fresh food vouchers
0:18:06 defining food insecurity
0:23:02 what's urban about food insecurity
0:25:29 urban food deserts
0:29:18 how government and nonprofits address food insecurity
0:32:05 issues facing Poughkeepsie's farmers market
0:34:29 Sarah's dream for a new kind of grocery store
0:36:10 public health costs of food insecurity
0:38:17 food insecurity's impact on schools
0:43:13 opportunities for Hudson Valley agriculture
0:51:56 how business addresses food insecurity
0:58:30 farmers' access to land / food apartheid

Two corrections: First, at 11:25 Sarah cites the wrong Poughkeepsie/national food security statistics. As correctly noted at 22:24, about 1 in 7 households in Poughkeepsie and 1 in 4 nationally are food insecure. Second, at 26:28 Leonard cites the wrong minimum distance from grocery stores in urban food deserts: it's half a mile, not 500 feet, from the closest grocery store.