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Latest Press Stories
Star Tribune
The Star Tribune featured a story on the Twin Cities Mobile Market bus, a revamped school bus that’s like a grocery store on wheels for people who don’t live close to a regular grocery store. Read the story here: https://www.startribune.com/mobile-market-delivers-food-to-twin-cities-communities-in-need/601139435
Sahan Journal
The Sahan Journal did a great article on our Agrivoltaics work centered on our emerging farm partners. Read the story here: https://sahanjournal.com/news/minnesota-immigrant-farmers-solar-gardens-agrivoltaics/
The Guardian
The Guardian did a story on the Sudanese Farming Group that is part of Big River Farms and farms on site at New Hope outside our offices/warehouse! Read the story here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/sudanese-farm-minnesota
Watch this great feature by WCCO on our Big River Farms program. We’re grateful for the spotlight on our farm partners, Farm Director, and partners at Neighborhood House. We believe in local food for every table by supporting emerging farmers and increasing access to local foods for everyone, including food shelves.
‘Twin Cities Mobile Market’ brings fresh groceries to people in food deserts
Pilot project combines solar and farming.
2023
December 28, 2023 KARE 11 (Jason Hackett): ‘Twin Cities Mobile Market’ brings fresh groceries to people in food deserts
November 29, 2023 Minnesota Spokesman Recorder (H. Jiahong Pan): A food desert in downtown Minneapolis?
November 28, 2023 Morrison County Record: Fare for All holiday packs available in December
November 20, 2023 Star Tribune (Kelly Smith): Minnesota on record-setting pace to top 7 million food shelf visits this year
November 17, 2023 Star Tribune (Kelly Smith): Give to the Max Day draws $34 million, the second-highest amount ever for Minnesota schools, nonprofits
November 12, 2023 Star Tribune (Kelly Smith): Will Minnesotans break from the national trend of declining donations on Give to the Max Day?
November 7, 2023 MPR (Kirsti Marohn): Mixing solar and farming could be key to clean energy future
October 31, 2023 The Land (Laura Cole): The Food Group covers many bases in supplying food and markets
October 30, 2023 KSTP: Decreasing food waste, feeding those in need
October 13, 2023 Minnesota’s New Country 98.1 (Kelly Cordes): Fare-For-All Pop Up Grocery Coming To St. Joseph On Monday
October 3, 2023 Star Tribune (Matt McKinney): Manitou Fund buys Wilder Foundation forest land near Stillwater
September 29, 2023 Kiowa County Press (Mike Moen): Growing veggies with a side of solar cuts emissions, boosts land access
September 28, 2023 Public News Service (Mike Moen): Growing veggies with a side of solar cuts emissions, boosts land access
September 25, 2023 Star Tribune (Christopher Vondracek, Kelly Smith): Ag secretary: Federal shutdown would hurt nutrition assistance, rural America
September 14, 2023 KARE 11 (Kent Erdahl): MN household income fell again in ’22; food shelves aren’t surprised
August 31, 2023 MPR (Angela Davis, Kelly Gordon): Growing diversity: The changing face of Minnesota farming
August 28, 2023 Solar Industry (Nina Korman): Pilot Project Aims to Increase Solar, Preserve Farm Land
August 26, 2023 KARE 11 (John Croman): Pilot project combines solar and farming
August 25, 2023 Twin Cities Business (Dan Niepow): USDA Officials Tout Solar Projects in Minnesota
August 23, 2023 Great Plains Institute (Brian Ross): Innovative Project Shows How Solar Power Benefits Extend to Sustainable Farming
August 10, 2023 KARE 11: Minnesota communities empowered through TEGNA Foundation grant funding
July 24, 2023 WCCO (John Lauritsen): Dry, hot summer taking its toll on Minnesota farmers
July 12, 2023 Food Bank News: Why Some Food Banks Charge for Low-Cost Groceries
July 10, 2023 5 News (Arkansas Business): $327 million Driver Solar farm going in alongside Big River Steel’s new mill
May 24, 2023 Hutchinson Leader: Oak Heights Covenant marks one year as Fare For All site
May 3, 2023 KELOLAND: Twin Cities’ grocery bus a ‘great community asset’
April 27, 2023 MPR (Emily Bright, Alanna Elder): Sudanese Farming Group works to grow culturally relevant crops, get access to land
April 26, 2023 KELOLAND (Eric Mayer, Lauren Soulek): Mobile groceries coming to you: A new program announced in Sioux Falls
February 22, 2023 Ambrook Research (Shea Swenson): Oklahoma’s New Lunch Program Puts a Twist on the Farm-to-School Model
February 20, 2023 MN Daily (Amirah Razman): Campus-based assistance programs aim to combat food insecurity
2022
December 2, 2022 Ag Week (Noah Fish): 40-Acre Co-op, Big River Farms offer more opportunities for state’s emerging farmers
October, 17 2022 WCCO News (Beret Leone): “They need your help”: Inflation hitting local food shelves hard
July 18, 2022 MinnPost (Sophia Lenarz-Coy): Minnesota, you have a problem with food inequity
July 15, 2022 Country Messenger (Leslie MacKenzie): Co-op tour offers opportunity to meet longtime farming neighbors
April 26, 2022 WCCO (Pauline Le, Kate Raddatz): Local Nonprofit The Food Group Sees Boom in Bulk Buying Due To Inflation
April 21, 2022 CCX Media (Shannon Slatton): Fare For All offers groceries at 40% discount
April 18, 2022 UMN Sustainable Development Goals Initiative: Student Activity Grant Brings Mobile Market to Campus
March 25, 2022 MN News Country (Kelly Cordes): Amazing Program Helps All Minnesotans Save Money on Groceries
March 25, 2022 Star Tribune (Gail Rosenblum): Fare For All offers discounted groceries for people facing food insecurity and anyone else
March 9, 2022 Pioneer Press (Molly Guthrey): Inflation resources & how to stretch your grocery budget
March 9, 2022 City of Bloomington: Fare For All at Creekside Community Center
January 27, 2022 MN Women’s Press (Demetria Dickinson): Seeking Agricultural Equity
January 22, 2022 StarTribune (Kelly Smith): After record year, Market Bucks program for low-income Minnesotans expands this Spring
2021
November 21, 2021 WCCO 830 AM Radio: Twins, Saints food donations available in time for Thanksgiving
November 20, 2021 StarTribune: With Thanksgiving coming, Minnesota nonprofits are struggling to cope with a national shortage of turkeys
November 10, 2021 WCCO CBS Minnesota: Converted Bus Brings Fresh, Healthy Groceries To Twin Cities Food Deserts: ‘If Your Belly’s Full, You’re Happy’
September 8, 2021 WCCO CBS Minnesota: ‘The Need Is At Historic Highs’ – Twin Cities Food Group Struggles To Find Volunteers
August 20, 2021 Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) In Her Boots Podcast: KaZoua Berry – A Call to Action
February 26, 2021 StarTribune: Co-op supporting immigrant farmers in Minnesota gives back with food boxes for families in need
February 10, 2021 Press Release: U.S. Senator Tina Smith Teams up with Senate Colleagues to Introduce Justice for Black Farmers Act
2020
December 22, 2020 StarTribune: More Minnesotans visited food shelves in 2020 than any year on record — and the need is expected through 2021
December 20, 2020 FOX9 KMSP: The Food Group doubles its food distribution to help families in Minnesota and Wisconsin
December 14, 2020 Red Lake Nation News: Guthrie Theater continues longtime partnership with The Food Group to host curbside food drive
November 5, 2020 University of Minnesota CFANS: Emerging farmers apply science, explore soil-improving crops
September 11, 2020 StarTribune: The Food Group responds to fresh demand
September 5, 2020 ThreeSixty Journalism: Nutritious and culturally specific in a time of need
August 21, 2020 StarTribune: Some help emerges for farmers that supply local markets in the Twin Cities
August 12, 2020 Northern Spotlight: Big River Farms – Summer Update
July 31, 2020 Northern Spotlight: An Incubator Farm Reacts
July 31, 2020 KSTP: Allina Health host food giveaway with The Food Group
July 21, 2020 KARE 11: Minnesota food banks, shelves prepare for hunger surge
July 14, 2020 Sun Post: The Food Group receives 20 tons of food from LDS Church
June 25, 2020 StarTribune: New data project a Great Depression-level surge in hunger by fall in Minnesota
June 19, 2020 StarTribune: Minneapolis organizations, groups transition to meet neighborhoods’ needs after George Floyd death
May 18, 2020 MPR News with Angela Davis: Combating food insecurity during the pandemic
March 6, 2020 KSTP: Minnesota nonprofit expands affordable grocery options with store on bus
