The Grocery Access Task Force has published recommendations for developing healthy, affordable food retail in underserved communities throughout Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri. Their report, Stimulating Supermarket Development in Bi-state Kansas City, outlines nine state and local policy recommendations.
The H2O to Grow Coalition announces a new grant fund to install water taps at community gardens and urban farms. The Fund results from a unique partnership between the Unified Government’s Departments of Public Health and Public Works and the H2O to Grow Coalition working together to increase healthy food grown in Wyandotte County, to use Land Bank land for community benefit, and to manage empty lots to reduce storm water run-off.
Many groups are working to improve water access for urban gardeners and farmers. For the last three years, one Kansas City, Kan. resident has grown enough okra in the garden in the Healthy Kidz Community Garden that she was able to sell the produce not only at a local farmer’s market, but to Westwood Apple Market as well, raising money for youth programs in the neighborhood.
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