Food Bank News: San Francisco-Marin Food Bank Advances Food Pharmacy Concept

January 15, 2019

There is a new category of food distribution in the works, and the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is helping to define it.

Rooted in the concept of food as medicine, SFMFB is working with the San Francisco Department of Public Health to develop a network of “food pharmacies,” which look like regular pantries on the surface, but have a lot going on behind the scenes that make them more effective in treating chronic disease through better nutrition.

Read more about it in the inaugural edition of Food Bank News