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Osakis Family Foods opens for business May 16

May 14, 2013 in The Osakis Review

Local funds helped new owners improve, open store Continue Reading

Grocery stores, gas stations feel effects

April 10, 2013 in Worthington Daily Globe

WORTHINGTON As rolling blackouts continued in Worthington Wednesday, businesses carried on as best they could. Continue Reading

Bakken grocery bills hard to swallow: Dickinson food prices at or above national, Midwest average

November 17, 2012 in The Dickinson Press

The tale has spread that it’s possible to make a fortune out in the Bakken, but so has the tale of how it takes a fortune to live here. Continue Reading

Hugo’s in Grand Forks buys Park Rapids, Minn., grocer

November 14, 2012 in DL-Online

Hugo’s Family Marketplace, a Grand Forks-based grocer, said Tuesday that it has purchased J&B Foods in Park Rapids, Minn. This will bring the number of stores in the Hugo’s chain to 10. Continue Reading

Milestone as phase II for community owned store in WIllmar, Minn., moves ahead

September 16, 2012 in West Central Tribune

WILLMAR Organizers for a Community Owned Grocery reached a membership milestone that has launched the project into the phase II planning stage.
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The cost of putting food on the table

September 1, 2012 in The Dickinson Press

The banana could be considered a minor miracle of global trade.
Every day of the year, even in winter, a shopper in Grand Forks can purchase fruit grown in the tropics and shipped thousands of miles to be sold during short period before it turns black, at a price, as of last month, of 58 cents per pound. Continue Reading

Pine Ridge reservation grocery store might reopen Thursday

May 16, 2012 in The Daily Republic

PINE RIDGE (AP) An attorney for the sole grocery store on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota says it might reopen Thursday after the Oglala Sioux Tribe dismissed an order to close.
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Willmar, Minn., community-owned grocery to host grower Q & A today

March 6, 2012 in West Central Tribune

WILLMAR The Willmar Community-Owned Grocery will host a grower question-and-answer from 4:30 to 6 p.m. today at the Willmar Public Library. Continue Reading

Help end hunger with trip to local grocery store

October 1, 2011 in Alexandria Echo Press

The Minnesota Grocers Association (MGA) is encouraging consumers to help their neighbors struggling with hunger by going to the grocery store and participating in “Minnesota’s Own” in October. Continue Reading

Documentary envisions future of sustainable local food systems

April 29, 2011 in West Central Tribune

WILLMAR In one of the scenes in Chris Bedford’s new documentary about sustainable food, residents of the Jackson Hill neighborhood in Muskegon, Mich., reflect on the bounty of an organic community garden they established together.
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