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The Mississippi Farm to School Network offers resources for schools on how to start school gardens, organizes farm tours, and provides programs to educate children and families about the importance of eating locally grown, nutritious food.
SR1’s C.O.O.L. Talks video series, designed for both adults and children, features interviews with experts on various academic topics and provides information on educational resources for students and parents.
South Arts selected Sipp Culture and the B.B. King Museum to receive $300,000 over three years, in partnership with the Ford Foundation.
Each year, A Stroka Gene-Us Alpacas, an alpaca farm based in Stringer, Miss., holds the Stringer Alpaca Festival, which allows visitors to tour the farm, feed and pet the alpacas, and watch live demonstrations of how the farm’s owners, Mary Ann and Terry Stroka, spin fleece.
Before Farmacy Marketplace opened in Webb, Miss., in October 2022, Webb resident Dorothy Chestnut would travel to Greenwood, Miss., which is more than 30 miles away from her home, to obtain fresh produce and other groceries.
M.R. Hackman initially founded Sherman Creek Grocery as a country store in 1933. Currently, Dottie Wheeler runs the store.
More than 30 volunteers from several different organizations attended JSU’s Office of Community Engagement annual Spring Planting Day in March 2022.
The Turners created ‘Sipp Culture as a way to foster community development in Utica, which was once a thriving community, but in recent years has seen the loss of its schools, industry and, finally, its grocery store. Join co-founders Donna Ladd and Kimberly Griffin this week as they discuss food insecurity with Carlton Turner on MFP Live this Thursday, April 14, at 6 p.m.
Rhea Williams-Bishop, director of Mississippi and New Orleans programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, believes that the richness of Mississippi’s soil should be passed down to every young person in the state, cultivating generations of healthy eaters.
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