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Fork on the Prairie Road: Thinking outside the bean and bologna box

Sheri Poore
Nov 7, 2020
Nov 7, 2020 Updated Apr 8, 2021

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My colleague recalls eating a lot of beans when she was a child. Her large farm family sometimes experienced “too much month at the end of the money.” Without boxes from the local food pantry, there were days they might have gone hungry.

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Sheri Poore grew up on a Day County dairy farm and is a former Tri-State Neighbor editor now living in Sioux Falls.