Before they ever met, musicians Quinoa Soedsauer and Reynaldo Budhi were both living in New York when they both realized they wanted something different out of life. Soedsauer was playing the saxophone with his band while working odd jobs, and Budhi was in between jobs and wondering about his next step. “I just felt I…
Helen Stewart wishes her fridge was better stocked, but that is not always possible in Marks, Mississippi. While there were once grocery stores in her community, all of them have closed. “It is like we are going down instead of going up,” Stewart said. Without a grocery store nearby, Stuart and her fellow residents have…
While Mississippi still has some of the highest rates of obesity and heart-related illnesses in the country, Tallahatchie and the Wellness Center are making a difference there.
A report from Hunger-Free America 2019 shows that Mississippi is the third hungriest state in the nation and around one in four Mississippians are food insecure. There are food banks and other programs designed to help alleviate the problem, but the Oxford Community Farmer’s Market (OXCM) wants to be a part of the solution, too.…