West End Farmers Market provides free produce, fresh food in Louisville | News from WDRB [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A Louisville nonprofit is guiding a community-led effort to provide fresh food in the west end.

The West End Farmers Market provides free fresh produce and local products twice a month this summer in the California neighborhood.

Taylor Ryan founded Change Today, Change Tomorrow in 2019 to give back to underserved communities in Louisville’s west end. Residents in the west end are disproportionately affected by a lack of access to fresh and healthy food options, Ryan wrote in a Change.org petition last year.

Eneitra Beattie, owner of Greenz N Tingz, said it’s important for healthy food to be available for people.

“It’s important for me because I live in west Louisville, it’s a food disparity in this area,” Beattie said. “The options we have are not good.”  

Ryan, the executive director of Change Today, Change Tomorrow knew there was a need for a farmers market. 

“One of …