Two decades have passed since Twin Cities residents learned about the food shelf at Wabasso, in west-central Minnesota, or as the community promotes itself, “smack dab in the middle of Redwood County.” It’s time to take another close look.

Back then, in what was known as the farm financial crisis of the 1980s, the food shelf in the basement of St. Matthews Lutheran Church was supplying food to a disturbingly high number of farm families that didn’t have incomes while crops were growing in the field.

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