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Winston-Salem market returns to address healthy food gap

In this July 2020 file photo, Kwesi Wilson (left) and Tyir Ozaka lean on a pickup truck full of watermelons they brought to the Liberty Street Market. PAUL GARBER/WFDD

A city-supported market in the midst of what's considered a Winston-Salem food desert is set to reopen for the season Friday.

The Liberty Street Market off of U.S. 52 provides a space for local urban farmers in an area where there are few supermarkets. And this year, it's expanding.

Moriah Gendy is a food resilience program manager for the city of Winston-Salem. She says this year's market will have a longer season and will be weekly instead of every other week. 

“People are beginning to really think of the market as an accessible entry point to both sell their produce and for people in that neighborhood to actually be able to access healthy and nutritious foods,” she says.

The market opened in 2014 with the support of the City of Winston-Salem and the Housing Authority of Winston-Salem. It is scheduled to run on Fridays through September and SNAP/EBT is accepted.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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