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October2026North Carolina Medical Journal
★ Published Commentary

The Living Infrastructure of Food is Medicine: Cultivating Rural Health Transformation in North Carolina

Andrew (Dru) Zucchino, Dennis Lanigan, Rochelle Bellin, Daniel Ross, Henry Crews, and Sonya Jones

A new commentary explores what it takes to build Food is Medicine systems that last—arguing that infrastructure includes not only facilities, technology, transportation, and cold storage, but also the farmers, community organizations, relationships, knowledge, and local capacity that make those investments work.

Read the Commentary