The incentive was clear: $30 worth of free food from a San Francisco farmers’ market in exchange for taking a healthy-eating course that could save their lives.
Bishop Swing Community Housing resident Jovita Zamora smiles as she show's off the produce she was able to buy with $5 at Heart of the City Farmers Market in San Francisco on Wednesday, August 19, 2015. Samuel Merritt University's School of Nursing students Amy Stevenson and Jennifer Lee created a free five-week healthy eating course for SRO residents that culminates in a field trip to the farmers market in U.N. Plaza, where they give the residents $5 to buy as much food as they can and then show them how to cook it.
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