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| Title: |
Root River Market |
| Resource type: |
Case study |
| Topics: |
Agriculture, Business, Communities
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| Keywords: |
community-owned grocery, food store |
| Audience: |
All
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| Region: |
Southeast
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| Summary: |
This community-owned grocery store and pharmacy arose out of a common interest in doing something to serve the community and create a market for locally produced high quality food. |
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Doris Henderson, and dozens of other enthusiastic members of the southeastern Minnesota community of Houston, have created a community-owned grocery store and pharmacy. The 7,000 square foot grocery, called the Root River Market is dedicated to community development and the citizens of Houston. "Business is pretty good. People really like the quality of the meat and I hear lots of good things about the pharmacy," Doris says. "Houston hasn't had a pharmacy for 25 years."
In the 1950s Houston had five groceries. When the last, an IGA store, closed during the fall of 1998, citizens did not throw up their hands in despair and say, "that's progress". Instead, initially, they did what Americans do everywhere. They waited for the government to do something. "There were efforts on the City's part to try to get someone to come in," Henderson says. "But it's a small enough market so that the larger grocers don't want to mess around with it."
A detailed case study can be found on the http://www.renewingthecountryside.org web site, which showcases a wide variety of outstanding examples of people working to enhance their rural communities in Minnesota and elsewhere. To access this case study, just click on "Stories" on the left menu, then search for "Root River Market" using the "Search" function.
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| Organization: |
Renewing the Countryside |
| Website: |
www.renewingthecountryside.org |
| Suggested by: |
Joni Vincent
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| Added: |
02/5/02 |
| Updated: |
01/11/10 |
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