26 FEBRUARY 2020 - FARMINGTON, MINNESOTA: The closed Family Fresh Market grocery store Farmington, MN, about 30 minutes south of the Twin Cities. Farmington, with a population of 21,000, is a farming community that has become a Twin Cities suburb, the population has doubled since the 2000 census. The Family Fresh Market, Farmington's only grocery store, closed in December, 2019. The closing turned the town into a "food desert." The USDA defines food deserts as having at least 33% or 500 people of a census tract's population in an urban area living 1 mile from a large grocery store or supermarket. Grocery chains Hy-Vee and Aldi both own land in Farmington but they have not said when they plan to build or open stores in the town. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ