A food desert is an area that has limited access to affordable, fresh, healthy, and nutritious food. Food deserts are commonly paired with food swamps, which lack grocery stores and instead have conve
Burlingame, Kansas (pictured) is an example of a food desert. All three preexisting grocery stores in Burlingame closed, and the closest grocery store is over 40 km (25 mi) away in Topeka, Kansas.
A convenience store in Boston. Most of the food visible is relatively imperishable: dried, processed, and tinned products.
Hurricane Ian caused some damage to the ceiling of a Walmart store.
Processed foods at a grocery store in Houston, Texas
Burlingame is a city in Osage County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 971.
Food desert
…Burlingame, Kansas (pictured) is an example of a food desert. All three preexisting grocery stores in Burlingame closed, and the closest grocery store is over 40 km (25…
U.S. post office in Burlingame (2009)
Burlingame City Park (Sumner Park) (2025)