Food Insecurity

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)

Thinking Outside the Big Box to Address Food Deserts

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.

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A woman shops in a farmer's market surround

curiousKC | Shape Our Coverage About Food Access and Security

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

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Rob Reiman, founder and CEO of The Giving Tree

The Giving Grove’s Little Orchards Cast Long Shadows

The Giving Grove is empowering communities in Kansas City and several other cities to plant orchards to combat food insecurity.

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Food Prices Jump, Even As More Go Hungry

Food price are rising at rates not seen in nearly a decade, even more go hungry.

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Kosher Food Pantry items in jars

Season of Giving: Kosher Food Pantry

This charity goes to people in need, particularly rural residents.

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