Farmer City City Manager Taylor Baxter calls it drinking out of a fire hydrant trying to keep up with everything going on in the small DeWitt County community.

One of the long-running processes that is taking a lot of time and effort from several parties is the establishment of a grocery co-op. Baxter indicates his time recently has been getting to know about that process and what is happening now.

Baxter has come to learn Farmer City is what is termed a 'food desert' and has come to find out that having a viable grocery option for its residents is holding it back.

Listeners might remember, Baxter served as the City Administrator for the City of Clinton for a couple of years before leaving for Farmer City for a similar role.