Thousands of Washingtonians – particularly those living in Wards 7 and 8 – have acutely limited access to the resources necessary for daily life, including affordable, healthy food. DC Greens places racial justice and health equity at the center of its mission to create a city where healthy food is a human right and all residents can shape policies and programs for their own communities. Its award-winning Produce Prescription (Produce Rx) program, a Food Is Medicine intervention, enables medical providers to prescribe fresh fruits and vegetables to DC Medicaid patients with diet-related chronic illness. The Well at Oxon Run, a community farm in Ward 8, promotes healing in green spaces and offers programming that improves food access. DC Greens works to fulfill these three important precepts: “Food is Health,” “Food is Medicine,” “Food is a Human Right.”
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