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Food, community, and partnership: USDA Rural and Makoce Ag

On today's show...

We meet the two recipients of the Excellence in Economic Development award and learn how they're supporting and growing the Sioux Falls and Madison communities.

The SDSU Extension is surveying the state of child care in our rural areas. We learn more from Audrey Rider, an early childhood field specialist, about the data we know and the data we don't within the child care crisis.

Learn more about the SDSU Extension's child care needs survey.

A partnership is seeking to tackle complex, systemic food challenges. Nick Hernandez is president and CEO of Makoce Agriculture Development, and Nikki Gronli is state director of rural development for the USDA.

We talk about food that connects and sustains us.

Christina Oey is the new executive director of the South Dakota Humanities Council. She and Jennifer Widman, director of the Center for the Book, share why they believe humanities is infused into every area of life.

Lori Walsh is the host and senior producer of In the Moment.
Ellen Koester is a producer of In the Moment, SDPB's daily news and culture broadcast.
Ari Jungemann is a producer of In the Moment, SDPB's daily news and culture broadcast.