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Shostak, S., Kehoe, A., Black, J., & Bindman, R. (2025). Growing community, food sovereignty, and health: A case study of a farm-based produce prescription program. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 14(3), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2025.143.016

Corresponding author Sara Shostak can be contacted at sshostak@brandeis.edu

A case study of Waltham Fields Community Farm’s VegRx program shows how produce prescription programs can improve community health and strengthen local food systems. JAFSCD peer-reviewed article by Sara Shostak, Anna Kehoe, Jolie Black, and Rachel Bindman (all at Brandeis U)

Produce prescription programs are an emerging strategy for making diet and nutrition more central to efforts to improve population health. Although they have multiple implications for local food systems, assessments of produce prescription programs too rarely consider the perspectives of farmers.

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