Residents from South Fork and surrounding areas gathered at the South Fork Community Building on Thursday, May 14, to explore new ways to improve grocery access and expand food choices in rural communities. The South Fork and Creede Grocery Conversation, hosted by the San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, focused on practical solutions including community-owned food cooperatives, buying clubs, mobile markets and new grocery businesses.
Residents from South Fork and surrounding areas gathered at the South Fork Community Building on Thursday, May 14, to explore new ways to improve grocery access and expand food choices in rural communities. The South Fork and Creede Grocery Conversation, hosted by the San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, focused on practical solutions including community-owned food cooperatives, buying clubs, mobile markets and new grocery businesses.
Residents from South Fork and surrounding areas gathered at the South Fork Community Building on Thursday, May 14, to explore new ways to improve grocery access and expand food choices in rural communities. The South Fork and Creede Grocery Conversation, hosted by the San Luis Valley Local Foods Coalition in partnership with the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center, focused on practical solutions including community-owned food cooperatives, buying clubs, mobile markets and new grocery businesses.
The Nation looks at how worker-owned home-care agencies are turning some of the country's lowest-paid jobs into stable, dignified ones, with better pay, far lower turnover, and better outcomes for the people receiving care. The piece reports that Next50 has awarded a $500,000 grant to RMEOC to launch a worker-owned home-care agency in Colorado.