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When Ivy Walls, the owner of Ivy Leaf Farms, and Jeremy Peaches, the owner of Fresh Life Organic Produce Co. and Agricultural Consulting Firm, found a study showing that lettuce purchased in low-income or high-income areas had a massive disparity in levels of gastrointestinal bacteria, they knew a change needed to be made. The two set out to create a grocery store in the historically Black Sunnyside neighborhood, which has long been a food desert.
Since its launch in 2022, Fresh Houwse Grocery is already making great strides in providing fresh foods to those who could previously not get them.
– Jacqueline Gualtieri, The 100 Companies