Cultivate Hope Corner Store brings healthy food at affordable price to Time Check neighborhood

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – The Cedar Rapids based non-earnings Matthew 25 held a grand opening for its new Cultivate Hope Corner Retail store on Wednesday.

Situated at 604 Ellis Blvd. in Cedar Rapids on the corner of Ellis Blvd. and E Ave, the non-income grocery keep is bringing cost-effective, nutritious and clean food to a community earlier marked as a foods desert by the USDA. The Cultivate Hope Corner Store will give a handy, walkable location for neighbors to shop, and also to assemble.

The flood of 2008 weakened quite a few houses and structures in the Time Test community, and Matthew 25 has labored in the community for far more than a 10 years to restore hope and obtain to healthful foodstuff.

The retailer is in the Hosmer building, which is extra than 100 a long time outdated, and earlier served as a grocery retail store from 1933-1967. Now, individuals in the Time Check out community can halt by for grocery basic principles like bread, milk and cheese, refreshing create, or even decide up an currently geared up food for as little as $4.

Component of the mission of the Cultivate Hope Corner Retail outlet is to give awareness on how to work with the refreshing foodstuff it offers. A compact seating place in the store will be used for instructional workshops masking a assortment of matters, which includes planning and storage of new food items. Courses will be led by Matthew 25 workers, reps from Iowa State University and other group companions.

The store’s common several hours are 8 am-8 pm, Monday-Saturday.

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