{"id":2405,"date":"2014-09-03T23:22:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T03:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2014-09-05T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T15:14:13","slug":"mountainmarkets-initiative-receives-cfwnc-30k-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/mountainmarkets-initiative-receives-cfwnc-30k-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"MountainMarkets Initiative Receives CFWNC $30K Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #3d9a34;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We are excited to announce that MountainWise&#8217;s MountainMarkets <em>Healthy Corner Market<\/em> initiative, through the Macon County Public Health Department,\u00a0received a\u00a0$30,000 Food and Farming grant. \u00a0 The grant money, provided in partnership with The Normac Endowment Fund, the Biltmore Estate Charitable Fund and the\u00a0Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, will be used to strengthen Corner Market initiatives in\u00a0Cherokee, Clay, Macon, Graham, Swain, Jackson, Haywood and Transylvania counties (NC Public Health Region 1). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The MountainMarkets initiative seeks to increase the number of corner stores that \u00a0offer and promote healthy foods and beverages. We know that by making the healthy choice the easy choice, communities can grow stronger and healthier. The MountainWise region has a long history of self-reliance and independent living. Our region was bringing the farm to the table long before it became a popular movement. \u00a0We think that offering healthier, fresher, local ingredients at the corner market just seems like the right thing to do, the natural thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, Corner Market efforts have\u00a0focused primarily on urban areas. So it was a little unusual for us to focus on more rural region. However, that didn&#8217;t stop us from thinking outside the box and rolling out a pilot program that focused on a\u00a0rural population.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The MountainMarkets program has steadily gained traction. Money from the CFWNC grant will enable the program to continue to\u00a0expand to eight additional stores that accept SNAP\/EBT payments, bringing the total to fifteen stores. The expansion includes a focus on stocking locally-sourced foods.<\/p>\n<p>Partners in the project include Region 1 County Health Directors, NC Cooperative Extension, the Southwestern Commission and the Western NC Food Policy Council. Connections with farmers through Southern Appalachian Family Farms, ASAP and programs such as\u00a0<em>Buy Haywood<\/em>\u00a0will enhance our\u00a0ability to connect markets with sources of local agricultural products.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tim Richards, CFWNC\u2019s Senior Program Officer in charge of the Foundation\u2019s Food &amp; Farming Focus area, \u201cMountainWise\u2019s\u00a0<em>Heathy Corner Market<\/em>\u00a0initiative in Region 1 is an effort to provide underserved residents with new options for obtaining healthy foods, to promote greater health equity in rural southwestern NC counties and to encourage economic development by providing new market relationships between retail food outlets and local farmers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #86acc2;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are excited to announce that MountainWise&#8217;s MountainMarkets Healthy Corner Market initiative, through the Macon County Public Health Department,\u00a0received a\u00a0$30,000 Food and Farming grant. \u00a0 The grant money, provided in partnership with The Normac Endowment Fund, the Biltmore Estate Charitable Fund and the\u00a0Community Foundation of Western North Carolina, will be used to strengthen Corner Market [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[215,49,139],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthy-eating","category-wnc-local-info","tag-cfwnc","tag-corner-store","tag-mountainmarkets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2423,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions\/2423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountainwise.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}