As co-director of FRESHFARM Markets, Bernadine Prince has 11 years of experience setting up farmer’s markets in the D.C. metro area. FRESHFARM just received a permit to open a farmers market blocks from the White House. The market is the latest in a series of White House-sponsored efforts to push local, fresh food. The first…

LaDonna Redmond’s new grocery store, Graffiti and Grub, overlooks Interstate 90 just inside the Chicago city limits. A short distance away, the El tracks cut overhead—and as she greets me and unlocks the door, a train clatters by. The store is right on the boundary between Englewood and Washington Park, two largely African-American neighborhoods on…