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Hunger relief-our 150+ Food shelf and meal program partners received over 6.4 million pounds of high quality, nutritious, and culturally connected Food and support services from our agency support team. With many covid-era support programs expiring, Food need throughout the twin cities remains historically high. We continued to work hard to meet this high demand, increasing the amount of local foods we offerered to our partners and deepening our collaboration with tribal governments throughout the state. See schedule o for additional program language affordable grocery-we have seen a growht in customer demand for both our fare for all and twin cities mobile market programs as inflation has stretched grocery budgets for many. We are focusing on balancing the margin of Food sold to continue having a financially sustainable program while responding to customers' needs to keep prices low. We were able to launch a new twin cities mobile market bus this year - it is propane powered, providing a better shopping experience for customers while having a more positive environmental impact. Big river farms-big river farms worked closely with our 15 farm teams this year, offering access to land, infrasturcture, and business development skills. We als worked closely with federal government grants and community partners to provide additional planning training, hands on technical assistance and expanded market opportunities for our farmers. We work to keep land fees low for all land farmers and have chosen to waive land fees for all indigenous farmers as a way to acknowledge lands that were stolen from native peoples.