December 9, 2016 at 7:12 PM
Families everywhere struggle with impossible choices when it comes to feeding their children. Parents wonder: Can I find something fast and healthful at the corner store, since the supermarket is two bus rides away? Are my children sufficiently nourished? And, heartbreakingly: Will they notice if I skip dinner so I can feed them?
November 18, 2015 at 7:25 PM
Beverly Jones apologized for smelling of onions. She’d been chopping the pungent ingredient as part of her weekly shift at Martha’s Table, which feeds the poor and homeless from its headquarters near 14th and U streets NW.
August 23, 2015 at 7:27 PM
The market’s ripe melons, zucchini and ears of corn drew about 300 families who waited in a line stretching down the block from the King Greenleaf Recreation Center to receive their fresh produce on a recent Tuesday.
May 4, 2015 at 7:29 PM
Martha’s Table, a venerable D.C. charity and longtime 14th Street fixture, is preparing to break ground on a $20 million headquarters in Southeast Washington and will move many of its programs to one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods by early 2018.
January 9, 2015 at 10:36 AM
The White House’s announcement last month of a $1 billion public-private investment in early child-care programs, a priority of President Obama’s, presents an opportunity to teach children healthy eating habits. Fortunately for policymakers at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, a model piece of legislation was passed last year by the other deliberative body in Washington: the D.C. Council.
October 22, 2014 at 7:42 PM
Think of it as a more affordable Sips & Suppers: The inaugural One Pot Supper Evening parties will bring together friends and family on Sunday to raise money for Martha’s Table, the nonprofit dedicated to feeding and clothing the poorest of Washingtonians.
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