CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - A Cape Girardeau community garden hopes to start growing year-round, thanks to financial help from the state.

South Side Farms is taking part in the Food Insecure Cost-Share Grant Program, put on by the Missouri Department of Agriculture.

The program provides farms up to $50,000. South Side is just one of nineteen programs to receive funding.

In just three years, South Side Farms has been able to build two wind tunnels, one greenhouse and much more on the 7-acre facility

Executive Director Maurice Terio said this new money will help the people they feed eat cleaner and greener.

“It revolves around access, access to fast, healthy, nutritious food--and that’s what many communities lack,” he explained. “Here in this community, we lost our last major supermark

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