Denver Health is filling produce prescriptions with free farm food
Denver Health and Re:Vision have given urban-farm produce to 200 families in southwest Denver. The 12-week program is set to add the Westwood Clinic next year.
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Denver Health and Re:Vision run a 12-week Produce Rx program that hands out free food grown on urban farms. So far it has reached 200 families, 896 people, in southwest Denver neighborhoods the report describes as food deserts. The food is farm produce, not a voucher for a grocery aisle.
The program is scheduled to expand to the Westwood Clinic next year. The numbers are families already served, not a promise that every nearby household is enrolled.
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