Zoe Fauble, a senior at Whitehall Public Schools, learned to love fresh vegetables after helping her dad and grandmother in their garden. It was the most economical way for them to eat, and it was delicious. But put beans into a muffin? That’s not anything she’d ever...
The passion is breathtaking. Hundreds of schools, early childhood education centers, after school programs, and others have hit “submit” or “save” on applications to the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) for the 10 Cents a Meal for Michigan’s Kids &...
ABOVE PHOTO: Lunches for Detroit students packed for home delivery in early days of COVID. I remember a blizzardy day nine years ago when area farmers packed the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station in Leelanau County to hear area school food service...
We are doing a happy dance!!! 10 Cents a Meal for Michigan’s Kids & Farms has been expanded statewide!
We asked, and you signed! 800 people and organizations signed on to the letter we sent to Michigan lawmakers asking them to expand 10 Cents a Meal funding to cover the entire state, including Detroit.
Michigan legislature and governor agree to supplemental funding bill that retroactively funds 10 Cents a Meal for the 19-20 school year!