Our Mission
To encourage healthy food choices, provide nutritional food education, and access to local, organic, and craft foods, in order to promote enhanced well-being for the community.
Our Vision
Prairieland Market aims to create a food market that promotes personal, community, and environmental nourishment by supporting local/regional and organic food production, as well as consumer education, with access for all.
Our Values
1
Community
We provide our community with a market that cares about their needs and increases knowledge about the value of local food.
2
Sustainability
We support sustainable agriculture practices while minimizing packaging, transportation, and food waste.
3
Nourishment
We promote and support local producers of high-quality food products to help our customers eat healthfully.
4
Connections
People to producers, farm to fork, we believe relationships provide better opportunities for fresh food.
Leading and Giving Back
Fulfilling the mission takes the hard work and dedication of a team of volunteers and guidance from our board.
“Taste Buds”
Kitchen Manager
Maya Kathrineberg
Volunteers
Tom Claussen
Rod Franz
Greg Goode
Matt Hemmer
Tara Herrenbruck
Quinn Kathrineberg
Ellie Kearns
Mary Mertz
Tom Mertz
Mary Thompson
Jim Trower
Prairieland Board
Matt Hemmer, President
Guy Walker, Vice President
Kayley Fleming, Treasurer
Paula Fried
Kate Gross
Jared Hiatt
Katie Platten
Monte White
Melanie Young
Vickee Spicer, Executive Director
SNAP Benefits
Prairieland Market is pleased to provide SNAP benefits for those that are eligible to buy nutritious food. The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides qualifying low-income households with food benefits, access to a healthy diet, and education on food preparation and nutrition. In Kansas, the program is known as the Food Assistance Program.
The Food Assistance Program serves as the first line of defense against hunger. It provides crucial support to elderly households, to low-income working households, to other low-income households that include the unemployed or disabled, and to households transitioning from welfare to work. Food assistance customers can spend their benefits to buy eligible nutritious food, plants, and seeds to grow food for their household to eat.
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