CFAES’s outreach arm, OSU Extension, is part of a new five-year, six-state effort to get more and better food into isolated communities. The Voices for Food project will serve areas defined by USDA as “rural food deserts.” “These are low-income census tracts where a substantial number or share of people are far from supermarkets,” says OSU Extension’s Dan Remley. Among the project’s goals: Teaming up with local food policy councils, getting healthier foods into local food pantries, and giving people choices among those foods, not prepackaged selections. Read more.