A participating store in the Wichita Healthy Corner Store Initiative, bringing more fresh food to the blocks around 21st Street.
Merry Tastie is a participating store in the Wichita Healthy Corner Store Initiative, a city funded program administered by Wichita State University’s Community Engagement Institute that helps neighborhood corner stores carry more fresh produce and healthy food.
Northeast Wichita has fewer full grocery stores than it should. A corner store that stocks fresh fruit and vegetables is not a small thing here. It is the difference between a walk down the block and a drive across town.
Fresh fruit and vegetables now sit alongside the snacks and the pickles, restocked for the people who live on these blocks.
One of the Wichita corner stores taking part in the initiative, working to widen what a neighborhood store can carry.
Eight signature flavors are what put this store on the map, and they are still made by hand behind the same counter.
Schools, churches, teams, nonprofits and neighborhood groups are welcome to call about events, snack trays and community food days.
What the program actually is.
The Wichita Healthy Corner Store Initiative is a city funded program administered by Wichita State University's Community Engagement Institute. It works with neighborhood corner stores across Wichita to help them stock and sell more fresh produce and healthy food, using a national framework built by The Food Trust.
For a store like this one, that means fresh fruit and vegetables on the shelf next to the snacks, restocked for the people who actually live on these blocks rather than for whoever happens to drive past.
Working with the neighborhood.
Schools, churches, teams, nonprofits and neighborhood groups are welcome to call about events, snack trays and community food days. If you are organizing something on this side of town, there is a good chance she can help with it.
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