Food deserts occur when at least a third of the population is more than a mile from a supermarket in urban areas and within 10 miles in rural places.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Tina McKim is a sort of mobile delivery service for the hungry in her neighborhood.
“There’s a tremendous need for food in this community,” McKim said.
It’s a need made even worse by the closure of what used to be an Albertson’s grocery store in Bellingham’s Birchwood neighborhood.
That left the community with no place to get healthy food for more than a mile — technically making it a “food
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