Mound Bayou Food Clinic Fights Food Scarcity
Mound Bayou Food Clinic Fights Food Scarcity
Mound Bayou Food Clinic Provides Healthy Fruits and Vegetables, Fights Food Scarcity.
By Jaylin R. Smith
March 2, 2026
MOUND BAYOU, Miss.—Wash Sellers used to drive 15 minutes just to get an orange. A native of Merigold, Mississippi—a couple of miles north of Cleveland in Bolivar County—Sellers begins his year participating in the Daniel Fast, a 21-day religious-based diet that limits his eating to fruit, vegetables, beans and nuts. For years, Sellers would have to drive all of the way to Cleveland to get fresh produce for his fast. He doesn’t have to do that anymore.Rural communities across the country are grappling with food insecurity. Schoolchildren, seniors, grocers, and even farmers face a food crisis compounded by government cuts and soaring costs. These nine stories reveal how communities are navigating and reimagining the systems that have left them hungry.
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