A farmers market opening Wednesday at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in the Willowbrook neighborhood of South Los Angeles is the first in the county to open on a hospital campus.
The hospital serves over a million people in an area with the highest death rate related to diabetes in the county. It's also an "amputation hotspot" due to complications from untreated diabetes.
The new farmers market is part of their efforts to knock this area off the list of L.A's "food deserts" places with a lack of access to grocery stores and fresh produce.
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