By: Michael Fitzgerald, Record, 11/6/11

The bitterest dish in Stockton is to live in America’s food basket, yet send kids to school hungry. Or live in an urban “food desert” devoid of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Given this market failure, a Stockton neighborhood is trying a new approach: “social entrepreneurship,” a business venture aimed not only at profit but at making a better world.

“True farming should be for the people,” said Jeremy Terhune, the Stocktonian who brought the idea back from a Peace Corps stint in Panama.

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