"Working to save our rural grocery stores"
Rural Grocery Summit III: Strengthening Our Stores. Strengthening Our Communities. The summit will be held June 5-6, 2012, at the Hilton Garden Inn, Manhattan, KS.
- March 5, 2012Rural Grocery Summit Approaching to Help Strengthen Stores and Communities The Center for Engagement and Community Development.
- December 5, 2011Onaga Grocer Bucking a Recent Trend. Topeka Capital Journal.
- December 2, 2011Loss of Local Grocery Stores Drawing Congressional Attention. K-State Today.
- November 30, 2011Pott. County Town Gets Business Boost After Fire. WIBW News.
- November 22, 2011Planting a Grocery Store in a Food Desert. Harvest Public Media.
- July 7, 2011Small Towns Try to Save Vital Grocery Stores. USA Today.
- March 9, 2011Kansas Profile - Now That's Rural - Brenda Johnson - Hometown Market. K-State Research and Extension.
- November 24, 2010In 'Food Deserts,' Getting Groceries is a Struggle. The Kansas City Star.
- November 15, 2010Small Town Grocery Stores May be Going Out of Style... Except in Bucklin. (PDF).
- November 12, 2010Thinking of beginning a new Grocery Store? This report from the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs may be a helpful resource for getting started! (PDF).
- September 13, 2010Rural Grocery Initiative TV Spot Airs on Fox News.
Rural Grocery Summit III. Strengthening Our Stores. Strengthening Our Communities.
We will host the third national Rural Grocery Summit in Manhattan, Kansas on June 5-6, 2012. In 2010, over 200 participants from 13 different states attended this important conference. This year we expect even more store owners, concerned citizens, funders, non-profits, government agencies, food suppliers, university researchers, and business leaders. Participants will spend two days talking with one another about the "triple bottom line" of rural grocery benefits - economic development, improving health, and community sustainability.
Rural Grocery Stores are Integral to the Health and Well-Being of Small Kansas Communities: K-State Journalism and Mass Communication Students Tell the Rural Grocery Story
Journalism and Digital Media students in five classes at the A.Q. Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications spent spring of 2011 developing multimedia content designed to tell an important story: Rural grocery stores are integral to the health and well-being of small Kansas communities. Partnering with K-State's Center for Engagement and Community Development's Rural Grocery Initiative, which began in 2007, the students visited more than a dozen towns and cities in Kansas and Missouri to explore the challenges faced both by rural grocery store owners and by communities that lack access to a variety of reasonably priced, healthful foods. The students learned that the issues surrounding food access and community sustainability in Kansas mirror the significant challenges faced by rural areas nationwide.