According to the United States Department of Agriculture, areas with large numbers of "households with low incomes, inadequate access to transportation and a limited number of food retailers providing fresh produce and healthy groceries for affordable prices" are commonly referred to as food deserts. Although Chapel Hill is wealthy relative to North Carolina and the country, communities in some parts of the Town don't have access to affordable and healthy groceries.
I stand at the overlook off Arkansas 5 and stare down at Greers Ferry Dam, with placid Greers Ferry Lake on one side and the cold, swift water of the Little Red River on the other.