Kansas City Food Deserts Expand Across State Line As Grocery Stores Close

The Kansas City Globe e-Edition
  • Phillip Ramsey, a master gardener, stands in the Ruby Jeans Community Garden at 29th Street and Wabash Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, where he grows and distributes fresh produce to neighbors. (Thomas White/ The Beacon)
    Phillip Ramsey, a master gardener, stands in the Ruby Jeans Community Garden at 29th Street and Wabash Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, where he grows and distributes fresh produce to neighbors. (Thomas White/ The Beacon)

    Residents deal with mile-lona walks, comer store diets and poorer health as grocers are forced to close unprofitable locations on both sides of the state line

    By Thomas White,

    The Beacon

    Phillip Ramsey is a master gardener who’s planting fall produce in one of the community gardens he manages. It’s just two blocks from the Sun Fresh grocery store that operated at 31st Street and Prospect Avenue until…