9/03/2024 –
Bonton Farms isn’t just growing fresh food; it’s growing a prescription for better health, leaning into its ‘food is medicine’ philosophy to improve the community’s health.
“Our new amazing initiative is going to be a FARMacy,” Bonton Farms CEO and President Gabe Madison said. “So it’s farm spelled F-A-R-M, and incorporating our whole mantra is, has always been, for food to be the medicine for the community.”
The Dallas nonprofit urban farm’s FARMacy will provide free or low-cost medically tailored meals, educational programs about health and cooking, and medical monitoring for people in the South Dallas community.
“This area has been disenfranchised a lot,” Bonton Farms Farm Lead Ty Bowman said as he harvested fresh lettuce…
