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Who Can Afford to Eat Well?
Those of you who are regular readers of our posts know that we consistently advocate for consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, grass fed beef and buffalo, milk and cheese, fish,...
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Food Share Program Wraps It up for 2011
Food Share is a Rapid City program that sends volunteers to local farmers markets at the end of market day to purchase at a discount unsold produce. That produce—mostly fresh vegetables and some...
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Community Action to Hire Food Sustainability Coordinator
Western South Dakota Community Action Program will be hiring a person to promote food sustainability in West River. CAP has long promoted community gardens, distributed seeds and tools, and helped...
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Food Share Broadens into Food Sustainability
Marcey Edwards receives chard, tomatoes, and onions from Jed Beadle, coordinator of the Food Sustainability Program In 2011 the Food Share Program, an offspring of Dakota Local Food Network, helped...
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Hungry People Line Up for Fresh Vegetables and Fruit
Jed Beadle displays some of the food purchased from local farmers and ready to be distributed to low income people. In just a few days word has gotten out that fresh local vegetables and fruit are...
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Food Sustainability Program Continues through the Winter
Jed Beadle buys unsold food at the Black Hills Farmers Market on October 30, the last day of the market. What started out as the Dakota Local Food Network Food Share program in 2011 morphed into the...
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25 Tons of Local Healthy Produce to the Hungry
Jed Beadle shops for produce on the last day of the Black Hills Farmers Market in Rapid City In the last issue of the Western SD Community Action newsletter author Harold Storsve wrote about the food...
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Three Farmers Honored for Supporting Food Independence Program
At the Black Hills Farmers Market meeting April 18 three people were honored for their support of what was once the Food Share program and became the Food Independence Program. Dale Casteel proudly...
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Food Share Future Uncertain
Jed Beadle buys squash and tomatoes at the Black Hills Farmers Market in October 2012. The Rapid City Food Share Program, an enterprise created by Dakota Local Food Network in 2011, is not...
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Food Share Program Is Given New Life
Low-inclome clients line up for free produce at Western South Dakota Community Action in Rapid City. The DLFN Food Share Program, now known as Back to Basics, has survived federal funding cutbacks at...
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