Take Root Cafe's mission is to alleviate hunger and promote health by offering nourishing, high quality, local foods on a pay-what-you-can basis. The vision for Take Root is to create a more compassionate, thriving, and economically strong community through the medium of sustainable and local food.We are dedicated to the following:• Helping to end hunger by encouraging participation and not dependency.• Supporting and promoting local family farms and farmers by paying for food atmarket value, with the exception of donations of first-rate, high-quality foodfrom local sources.• Giving people the opportunity to give back to the community and caféthrough service.• Serving local, organic-when-possible, and unprocessed fresh food and drink.• Honoring the natural abundance which has been given to us, and being goodstewards of Earth.• Cultivating community dialogue and activities by supporting other localbusinesses, social action, and grassroots efforts.• Providing a space for the education of the public about the current food system andbuilding food security.• Implementing green, sustainable, & compassionate business operations.• Eliminating waste in the food industry.• Paying living wages for employees & providing job-training skills.• Increasing tourism to the downtown square of Kirksville.• Trusting our customers to be inspired, honest, and fair in their exchange of moneyand/or time for the food we prepare both mindfully and in a heartfelt way each day.We primarily serve residents of Kirksville, MO and surrounding communities in Adair County.