Black leaders on Buffalo's East Side build markets to fight food insecurity

Black leaders on Buffalo’s East Side build markets to fight food insecurity

BUFFALO, NY – The historic Fruit Belt neighborhood on Buffalo’s east side, with its Grape, Peach and Lemon streets, was once thriving. Yet now, in place of the orchards that once gave the area its name, there are abandoned houses with broken steps and ‘no trespassing’ signs, empty plots of land overgrown and a troubling …

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