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A Community Struggle to Maintain a Full-Service Grocery

By | March 25, 2024 | 0
A tall bronze memorial with figures at the top in front of Sun Fresh market.

The Sun Fresh grocery at Linwood and Prospect avenues in Kansas City is struggling to sustain itself in the face of neighborhood homelessness and drug use.

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Droughts, Climate Change, Drive US Beef Herd to Historic Low

By | March 18, 2024 | 0
An Oklahoma rancher pouring out sack feed to his Angus and Charolais mix cattle in a pasture of dead grass caused by drought.

Persistent drought, complicated by climate change, have helped drive the nation’s inventory of beef cattle to a 61–year low.

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‘Lifeblood of the Community’: States Invest to Save Rural Grocery Stores

By | March 8, 2024 | 0
General Manager Brian Horak walks down an aisle at Post 60 Market in Emerson, Neb.

In Kansas, 1 in 5 rural grocery stores closed between 2008 and 2018. No new store has opened in half of the 105 communities that lost grocers over that time.

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Food Bank Leases Restaurant to Provide Fresh Eats for Kansans in Need

By | March 7, 2024 | 1
Take-away food created by Chop Shop in coolers.

Lawrence food bank Just Food is using shared restaurant space to connect food that could otherwise end up in a landfill with hungry people in need.

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What’s the Deal with Grass-Fed Food? 

By | February 14, 2024 | 0
A man in a gray hoodie and a hat stands in front of a herd of grass-fed cattle. He pets the back of a cow to his right.

Grass-fed evokes livestock on an open pasture and a farmer who is improving the sustainability of their land.  But is that what’s behind most of the labeling?

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