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Every Wednesday, neighbors, staff and patients of the Star Community Health Sigal Center and St. Luke’s Sacred Heart Campus in center city Allentown have convenient access to healthy, fresh produce and other nutritious foods thanks to a partnership with the Kellyn Foundation and their mobile market.
It may be nothing more than a barren lot now, but in about a year’s time the parcel along one of Bethlehem’s busiest thoroughfares will be home to a community market that has been more than a decade in the making. The Bethlehem Food Co-op is expected to open at 250 E. Broad Street in spring 2023.
On Episode 69 of No Rain Date, we’re joined by Ellen Underwood, Marketing and Outreach Coordinator for Buy Fresh Buy Local of the Greater Lehigh Valley to discuss how the organization supports consumers who want to purchase locally-grown produce and other foods at an affordable price. A
On this episode we’re happy to welcome Kellyn Foundation co-founder and Chief Medical Officer Meagan Grega, MD. Launched nearly 15 years ago, the Kellyn Foundation is having a positive impact on local communities through its various initiatives designed to help families “make the healthy choice, the easy choice.”
When news broke earlier this spring that a landmark grocery store on Bethlehem’s South Side would soon close, concerns grew that the area would slip further into the “food desert” category. Fortunately, that won’t be the case, after the Ahart’s building was purchased by a businessman who owns other supermarkets in the area.
Ahart’s Market in South Bethlehem has offered healthy and affordable food options to locals for nearly 20 years, however that’s about to change. The neighborhood grocery store recently announced it will close April 30 due to what it said were profitability issues related to COVID-19.
Fans of growing a local, sustainable food supply and improving access to fresh, natural and organic food in the Lehigh Valley are rejoicing this weekend over the Bethlehem Food Co-op’s long-awaited announcement that a lease for the store has been signed.
Welcome to Ep. 29 of No Rain Date, your weekly podcast featuring local news and in-depth interviews from the Lehigh Valley and beyond. This week’s guest is Carol Ritter, a board member of the Bethlehem Food Co-Op.
Only a few years after Bottom Dollar exploded on the grocery shopping scene in the Lehigh Valley with more than half a dozen brand new supermarkets, the chain is no more. The Bottom Dollar at 1529 Broadway, Fountain Hill, closed its doors Sunday, after company officials announced earlier this month that all the stores in the region would close by Jan. 15. The stores were sold by Delhaize Group to ALDI Inc. last year. In a response to a comment about the closings posted on the ALDI USA Facebook page by Saucon Source publisher Josh Popichak, the company issued a response that will likely frustrate some former customers of the Bottom Dollar stores.
