Credit: Yehyun Kim / CT Mirror Food deserts are census tract areas in which ... take the initiative to add commercial areas to the map after the initial creation of the zoning map.

Here is a map of the areas of Connecticut that are considered food deserts: Food stamps, handled by the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, have long provided financial ...

When Patty Allegra-Babcock wants to use her food ... desert. For years, the absence of incentives or a state office dedicated to food insecurity left community markets to fill the gap. Connecticut ...

When Patty Allegra-Babcock wants to use her food ... desert. For years, the absence of incentives or a state office dedicated to food insecurity left community markets to fill the gap. Connecticut ...

Wayne Pesce, president of the Connecticut Food Association, which is a trade association that represents food retailers and others, said that enticing grocery stores to go into food deserts was a ...

The USDA’s new Food Access Research Atlas is a map of all the places in the country where people live in food deserts — places where it’s difficult to access fresh food. There they are ...

HARTFORD -- Large food retailers opened 14 new supermarkets across Connecticut from the end of 2011 to the beginning of this year, but none in areas deemed by the federal government to need them ...

With at least four grocery stores in the city, plus a number of convenience stories, it is difficult to consider that Norwich may be a food desert. Yet there are neighborhoods within the ... At the ...

State and local officials say, however, that people who live in Connecticut’s urban food deserts can find fresh fruits and vegetables at smaller grocery shops and corner stores. There are also ...