Category: Food - Page 8

Thinking Outside the Big Box to Address Food Deserts

By | December 15, 2021 |

The Juniper Gardens Training Farm in Kansas City, Kansas, helps refugee farmers navigate their first year of growing and selling produce at local farmers markets, a CSA program and a wholesaling operation that caters to restaurants. In the field is Gasalla Musekura, formerly of Congo. (Photo by Jeff Tuttle)

The solution to food deserts doesn’t appear to lie in wooing large retailers to fill voids so much as listening to the needs of the underserved and trying multiple approaches to get healthy foods in the hands of residents.

curiousKC | Shape Our Coverage About Food Access and Security

By | November 22, 2021 |

A woman shops in a farmer's market surround

What conversations are missing about food security, access and economy in Kansas City? Shape our coverage through curiousKC.

Kansas Meatpacking Workers Fueled an Economic Boom, But Many Need Food Pantries to Get By

By | November 3, 2021 |

A line of people wait for the food pantry to open at Emmaus House. Maria Hernandez, center, cooks for the shelter's soup kitchen in addition to helping pass out groceries.

Four decades after Garden City’s meatpacking boom began, the southwest Kansas town is still strained by growing pains. And its prosperity remains uneven.