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Job Green with the Lincoln University Extension office in Cruthersville walks through the community garden with residents.

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The Caruthersville Community Garden is 'more than a garden. It's a source of fresh food, education, even physical activity.'

Rebecca Smith

Laveta Lockridge and Job Green work at the Lincoln University Extension office in Caruthersville. This year, they started a community garden as a way to educate folks on nutrition, as well as provide them with free, fresh produce in an area where that can be hard to get.

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The struggle to trace produce from farm to table

When he’s on the road, Del Smith’s home is his blue-and-silver 18-wheeler. The tidy cab has everything that Smith, who is a slight mustachioed man, needs…

Are most Midwest dinner tables filled with rows and rows of iceberg lettuce?

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Victorious vegetarian eating in the heartland

Jessica Naudziunas

Did you know the most common fresh produce in Kansas City and in the Midwest is iceberg lettuce? Yes, the green that is mostly water is apparently the…