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Suburban food deserts: A story inspired by Insiders

If you ever wonder why I ask questions in my introductions, it's for two very specific reasons.

One, I like talking to people, and responding to emails while I sip my morning coffee is just plain fun for me. Two, you're the eyes and ears of this community, and my best stories come from you.

While most of my readers are in Katy and Fort Bend, I have a group of wonderful readers in nearby suburbs. Often they share their concerns and gripes about their area, and I absorb all of them, rolling them around in my brain to see if there's a story there.

My readers in Brookshire, specifically, often vent their frustrations over not having a large grocery store nearby. I've learned that I, a west Katy resident, use the same H-E-B as the Brookshire folks. That H-E-B is three miles from my house. For them, it's 15 miles.

Every time I turn around, a new development is popping up somewhere in Houston's suburbs. Brookshire is one of the fastest growing suburbs in the U.S., and developers are snapping up land left and right for housing development.

It got me thinking: what's going to happen when thousands of new residents move out to Brookshire, but there's no supermarket to sustain their needs?

Armed with your complaints and my general curiosity, I set out to find the answer.

Turns out, it's not great. These areas are, or are about to become, food deserts.

Check out my coverage and let me know what you think about suburban food deserts. Do you think population booms in rural areas will come with growing pains, or will the kinks iron out as houses pop up? Email me your thoughts, and let's chat about it.

Claire Goodman, Katy reporter

claire.goodman@houstonchronicle.com

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Shout out

Learn the art of Chinese calligraphy at Fort Bend County Libraries' Chinese Calligraphy for Beginners workshop on Feb. 5 at 6:00 p.m. in the conference room of the Mission Bend Branch Library, located at 8421 Addicks Clodine Road.

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn about Chinese calligraphy, practice writing Chinese characters, and use brush and ink to create a calligraphy design.

The program is free and open to the public.