Community Family Market

A family-owned grocery store in Fargo has become a hub of healthy foods and culture for the neighborhood it serves.

Community Family Market is located in the Jefferson neighborhood of south Fargo and is nearly a mile and half away from the nearest grocery store, or about a half-hour walk, identifying it as a "food dessert."

Fargo Cass Public Health saw an opportunity to help the market provide healthy groceries in the neighborhood through its Neighborhood Market Project, and an opportunity to add some public art with a grant from the Arts and Culture Commission.

The mural is a collage of foods that members of the community and the owners thought were important to the cultures of the customers of the market. Foods from Latin America, West Africa and East Asia are all painted on the market's outside wall.