Since taking over the Velva grocery store, Verendrye Electric Cooperative members Brenda and Matt McCasson have made it their own.
North Dakota now has less than 90 rural grocery stores, down from 137 in 2014.
“Y’all have a lot to be proud of, not simply because you keep the lights on, but because you are the anchors of the very communities you serve.”
When you walk into Velva Fresh Foods, it feels like a small-town hug.
“It’s such an interesting and unusual and walled-off world for independent newspaper owners.
Constance “Connie” Bitz, an electric cooperative leader from LaMoure and champion of rural co-ops, was named the 2026 Gaylord Olson Cooperator by t
When my husband was preparing to run his first marathon, our oldest daughter lived in Minneapolis and mapped the route.
A regional initiative aiming to transform the rural food system by helping small-town grocery stores stay open and expand markets for local foods i
