Shop for produce in the open air
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Hoboken s Upton Farmers Market takes place every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Hoboken and Jersey City farmers markets are open, and more are on the way as residents embrace warmer weather and search for fresh produce and delicious baked goods.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, outdoor farmers markets provide a lower risk shopping option for shoppers and the community-at-large during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to food security in the United States,” states the CDC. “Access to healthy food options and nutrition are an important part of overall physical and mental health. Across the United States, farmers markets have been named an essential service because of their role in supporting local farms and providing communities access to fresh, healthy food during the pandemic.”
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Community Activism historynewsnetwork.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from historynewsnetwork.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In 1969, a young reporter for
New York magazine visited the West 80th Street Day Care and Community Center directed by Dorothy Pitman Hughes. Begun as an at-home child care for neighborhood children, Dorothy’s center grew from rooms in a welfare hotel to a former Chinese restaurant on West 80
th Street. Despite its humble origins and surroundings, the reporter recognized that the day care center was a locus of power, a “neighborhood-changing, life changing” place. Described by the reporter as possessing a natural gift for organizing, Dorothy used the Center to create community-controlled resources that provided job training, a Youth Action Corps, housing assistance, protection from domestic violence, and food resources on the Westside of Manhattan before gentrification. That young reporter, who was justifiably impressed with Dorothy in 1969, was Gloria Steinem.