Food

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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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.

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

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

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Food getting ready to be composted at Missouri Organic Recycling's facility in Liberty, Missouri.

Kansas City Sustainability Projects Get Grants to Fight Food Waste

Projects aimed at reducing food waste in Kansas City have gotten nearly $500,000 in grants from the EPA.

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Food for the Cure operates a garden at St. Peter & All Saints Episcopal Church to provide Kansas City-area cancer patients organic food for free.

Food for the Cure Fights Cancer with Organic Food

Andrew Fitzgerald started Food for the Cure as a way to bring organic food to cancer patients for free.

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