Funders to approach for Foodchain Inc

Foodchain is located in the heart of an urban food desert, which constitutes a low-income census tract that is further than 1 mile from a grocery store, where residents struggle with both access to nutritious, wholesome ingredients as well as the food literacy that accompanies a diet high in these components. As a consequence, Foodchain aims to forge links between our community residents and fresh food with education and demonstration of ways in which fresh food can be grown, acquired, and/or prepared in order to improve the long-term health outcomes of this high-risk population, encouraging a more robust local food economy, and resulting in a more resilient community. Our model, which we believe is replicable in communities around the country, combines unique operations, inluding an indoor aquaponics farm and a teaching and processing…