Fresh Rx Program Still Going Despite Federal Freeze

On Tuesday morning at East Meadow Farm, a delivery driver loaded several boxes packed with potatoes, cabbage and other fresh produce into the trunk of his gray sedan.

The boxes’ destinations were the doorsteps of Nassau County residents who experience food insecurity and have diabetes or other medical conditions that could be treated through a better diet. They are free to the recipients as part of
the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County’s NY Fresh Rx program, which hopes to improve participants’ health outcomes and reach more people this year. Cornell administers the program along with Harmony Healthcare Long Island and Hofstra University…