The city’s only food bank has seen an increase in demand as pandemic food stamp benefit increases have ended.
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Oregon food banks forced to tighten belts as hunger swells across the state
Rising prices and soaring demand show no sign of subsiding, impacting Marion Polk Food Share and other food banks across the state.
Teen farmers serve up prescription vegetables to Salemites in need
An urban farm on the Chemeketa Community College campus gives high schoolers a summer of experience in agriculture, and supplies weekly boxes of fresh, organic produce to clients at local low-income clinics with diseases like diabetes and high blood pressure.
