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Co-op grocery truck coming to K.I. Sawyer

In an attempt to address food insecurity and other issues at K.I. Sawyer, the Marquette Food Co-op will deliver and sell fresh food from a grocery truck there beginning May 22. (Journal file photo)

K.I. SAWYER — Starting May 22, a grocery truck will come to K.I. Sawyer on a weekly basis.

The Marquette Food Co-op will deliver and sell fresh food and groceries as part of a project to combat food insecurities at K.I. Sawyer, improve community health outcomes and reduce health inequity. The grocery truck will offer affordable, budget-friendly fresh food options and will be at K.I. Sawyer Elementary School from 4 to 6 p.m. every Wednesday.

The Sawyer Community Alliance, a volunteer group of Sawyer residents committed to improving the area, is a collaborator on the project and will organize activities around the grocery truck.

Other project-related activities in K.I. Sawyer include:

≤ A 10-week prescription food program to promote healthy eating habits in conjunction with the grocery truck deliveries. Elise Bur, administrative director of the Upper Great Lakes Family Health Center in K.I. Sawyer, will administer this part of the project.

≤ Six family cooking classes in May and June. The classes will be taught by Sarah Monte of the Marquette Food Co-op.

≤ A short gardening “curriculum” for students at Sawyer Elementary for three classes based on teacher interest, which started April 9. MSU Extension’s Rebecca Krans, consumer horticulture educator, and Master Gardeners Elizabeth Slajus and Lisa Johnson teach the classes.

≤ Gardening learning sessions for adults on various topics taught by MSU Extension and local Extension master gardeners, starting in May/June. These will be held at the Sawyer Community Garden.

The project also includes leadership training for members of the Sawyer Community Alliance. The training, consisting of four individual, hands-on sessions, is provided by MSU Extension under the direction of Brad Neumann, senior Extension educator.

The entire project is led by Dr. Sabine Martin of CTOR Solutions, based in Manhattan, Kansas, who is with Culture of Health Leaders, a national leadership program supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The leadership program fosters collaboration between people from fields and professions that influence people’s health.

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