Union Square

I went to visit Union Square's Green Market on Friday, where I attempt to support the bustling market at least once a week.  It is the warmest day out, since winter and many people are shopping at the local produce, fish, baked goods, art, and music vendors.  I spot many different social groups among the visitors and can tell who is educated and asking questions about their food supply at the farms' stalls.  Educated or not, at least they are all supporting the local agriculture.  On the park bench next to the market you can observe many people enjoying the weather, as well as myself.  Behind me there is a group of hipster on the grass, smoking there cigarettes, singing, and playing there acoustic guitars while a man across from, appearing as a wall street business executive, writes his daily emails on his laptop.  They're are people from everywhere, young and old, enjoying the market.  I see musicians, artists, business people, students, elderly, soldiers, park employees, and much more.  They one group that I can't spot, as hard as I try, is the poverty stricken and underprivileged classes.  In the last few months I have learned to spot these people, carefully busying there jumbo boxes of cereal at the food store with their WIC checks.  All other classes can be seen, affluent or at least food secure.  I do not see anyone worrying about what they buy, as long as it looks good.  No one spends time bargain shopping, they just pick up the best looking vegetables they want, pull out their 20's and 50's and go about their merry day.  Thoughts are provoked with where are these people, they're just a short subway right from one of the greatest produce resources in the city at, from what I can tell, pretty affordable prices, but it still appears as if they don't even have access to it.  Why? Do these people even know this place exists? Do WE need to educate them more about buying fresh produce?  At even the lowest price of the season, is it still to expensive to buy these nutritious and wholesome foods?  Answers need to arise and help needs to be provided.  Wasn't America suppose to be the land of the free, so why can't these people even afford the rightfully grown, most basic need?