Feed Our Own Backyard harvest. Sept., 2025. Courtesy Great Plains Food BankFARGO (KVRR) — Three organizations are teaming up to fight hunger in our area. For the last two years, Farm in the Dell of the Red River Valley, CNH, and the Great Plains Food Bank work together on a program called Feed Our Own Backyard. During the 2024 growing…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Playing off of this year’s theme of “Be a SOUPer Hero”, the Fill the Dome food drive was a “SOUPer success”. It hauled in over 100,000 pounds of food and over $45,000 in donations. The 19th annual event was conducted by area high school, middle and elementary students. Since 2007, Fill the Dome has united more…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Area high school students were at the Fargodome on Monday, hoping to fill it with food for those in need. This is the 19th year for the event. Fill the Dome was started in 2007 by student leaders. Since that time, students have collected more than 2.7 million pounds of food and over $884,000 to benefit…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) – Local students are again gearing up to collect supplies and raise money for the vulnerable members of our community. It’s almost time for the annual Fill the Dome event at the Fargodome. It’s been taking place since 2007 and has collected 2.6 million pounds of food in that time. This year, the Metro Area Student Ambassadors…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — South Fargo has a new place to get a pick-me-up in the morning or anytime of the day. Ziggi’s Coffee has opened its doors to customers along 52nd Avenue South. The shop also offers tea and smoothies as well as dirty sodas, breakfast items, and sandwiches. Several cars were lined up in the drive-thru when we…
The Great Plains Food Bank, which works with food pantries across North Dakota, prepared for a surge in demand after federal funding was disrupted in November. On Thursday, the state announced that partial benefits would begin flowing to some households enrolled in the federal program. (Photo courtesy of Great Plains Food Bank)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — The North Dakota…
Interim Health and Human Services Commissioner Pat Traynor discusses how the state is working to fund a federal assistance program for new mothers and young children during the federal government shut down. (Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor)BISMARCK, N.D. (North Dakota Monitor) — North Dakota is using $1.5 million in Department of Health and Human Services general fund money to address food…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — In their battle to fight food insecurity, Cass Clay Creamery once again teamed up with Hornbacher’s to donate milk to Great Plains Food Bank. Cass Clay Creamery donated over 24,000 “Giving Cow” cartons of milk. In North Dakota, 77,000 people face hunger, and over 25,000 of whom are children. As one of the most requested items…
Fargo, N.D. (KVRR) – Local food banks may see more difficulties in determining how many people in their communities are going hungry. That’s after the USDA announced that it will end the longstanding Household Food Security Report, calling it “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous.” Great Plains Food Bank says that this report was an important part of how they compare…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — Great Plains’ Hunger Action Month gets some major support through two big donations. North Dakota Farmers Union and Farmers Union Enterprises donated 35,000 pounds of ham from Redwood Farms in Iowa. Later in the day, Hornbacher’s presented a check of over $46,000 from its annual Checkout Hunger campaign. Combined with Hornbacher’s December Feed Hope campaign, the…
