Ian Walker, Simple Foods Market owner, rings up grocery items from employee Ruean Holt’s shopping basket on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, at the grocery store in Del Norte, Colo. Holt was enrolled in the Colorado Food Cluster’s Food Trust pilot program, which provided recipients with no-cost healthy foods as part of the universal basic food pilot program. Photo by John McEvoy/Special to The Colorado Trust
Universal Basic Food Pilot Program Tackles Food Insecurity in New Way
The nonprofit Colorado Food Cluster worked with two grocery stores to give participants access to no-cost items in a program nearing the end of its pilot.