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Winnebago Extension unveils statewide food‑access map to help residents find groceries, EBT sites and meal services
Summary
A Winnebago County Extension horticulture educator demonstrated a statewide interactive food‑access map that catalogs supermarkets, specialty stores, farmers markets, EBT‑accepting outlets and hot‑meal sites; staff plan a public launch in April or May and will validate entries with local partners.
Jacob, a Winnebago County horticulture educator, demonstrated a statewide interactive food‑access map during the Extension committee meeting, saying the tool compiles searchable layers for supermarkets, specialty stores, farmers markets, EBT‑accepting locations, food banks and hot‑meal sites and can be filtered by device type.
The map, which Jacob said will be hosted on the Oshkosh/Winnebago Extension website, includes a public submission form and change log for user updates. "There's 5,654 places that we've categorized that offers food access," Jacob said, adding that the map will let users…
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