Hanna

I am an eighth grader at LREI, Little Red Elisabeth Irwin. I am working on a social justice project with my group members Alice and Stella. Our topic is food, and we are trying to get better food to people who have none.

Maysville

For our fifth fieldwork, Stella, Alice and I went to a restaurant called Maysville. Maysville is a 4.5 star restaurant, and we wanted to see and hear about the healthiness of food from a different perspective other than just from our eyes. Many people just assume that fast food restaurants are unhealthy while fancy restaurants…

Food Banks

After traveling to the farm in Newark, we drove to a food bank. A food bank is a place, or warehouse, where food and supplies are shipped. People who are in need of these supplies, such as homeless people or people who live in food deserts, are allowed to come in and take what they…

Newark

For out third and fourth field works, Stella’s uncle, Charles, picked us up from school and drove us to Newark. Before stopping at the farms and the food bank, we drove around Newark, and counted the amount of super markets in the area. There were two. One wasn’t even a super market, it was a…

The Food Stamp Challenge

On Sunday, November 15, my group decided to do the Food Stamp Challenge. The Food Stamp challenge is a challenge where each person gets either two dollars a meal, or thirty dollars a week for all of their food. They then have to live off that much money for the week, or month, depending on…