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KCK Group Tries to Make Fresh Food More Accessible

By Kansas News Service
Published December 18, 2018 at 7:05 PM CST
Community council members, organizers and others gather at the Dotte Mobile Grocer's soft launch in November. Members hope the community council gives this food desert-busting initiative more staying power than other attempts to run a grocery on wheels. (Photo by Madeline Fox / Kansas News Service)
Community council members, organizers and others gather at the Dotte Mobile Grocer's soft launch in November. Members hope the community council gives this food desert-busting initiative more staying power than other attempts to run a grocery on wheels. (Photo by Madeline Fox / Kansas News Service)

Mobile Grocer Hopes that Listening to Locals Will Help Fill a Kansas Food Desert

According to a report, more than 800,000 Kansans don’t have access to fresh, affordable food. And that void can leave those people less healthy. Some communities are experimenting with ways to make nutritious food easier to find. Madeline Fox, of the Kansas News Service, takes us to Wyandotte County, where a group is experimenting with a grocery store that comes to its shoppers.

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The Kansas News Service is a collaboration involving Kansas Public Radio and other public media news outlets, dedicated to covering health, education and politics across the state.

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The Kansas News Service produces essential enterprise reporting, diving deep and connecting the dots in tracking the policies, issues and and events that affect the health of Kansans and their communities. The team is based at KCUR and collaborates with public media stations and other news outlets across Kansas. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to kcur.org. The Kansas News Service is made possible by a group of funding organizations, led by the Kansas Health Foundation. Other founders include United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, Sunflower Foundation, REACH Healthcare Foundation and the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
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