Sourcing locally on a Lake Michigan Island offers opportunities and challenges for the tiny school on Beaver Island. Our food and farming specialist Jen Schaap checks it out.
Articles by Jen Schaap
Casey Haggerty Joins Rich FoodCorps Legacy
Casey Haggerty joins a rich legacy of FoodCorps programming, working with the Groundwork team in Petoskey, and focused on the Pellston and Boyne Falls Public Schools on farm to school healthy food initiatives.
Bliss Gardens Farm With Crooked Tree Breadworks’ Greg Carpenter and Pellston School
Crooked Tree Breadworks owner Greg Carpenter spends the day with high schoolers from Pellston at Bliss Gardens Farm and Garden to create a protein bar made from black beans and other farm-raised produce.
Connecting Local Food to Area Institutions
How do you change a food system? It’s a big challenge with a lot of energy behind it in Michigan as more people and organizations are supporting the local economy and community health. But small things can have a big impact, like creating a platform for growers and suppliers to meet institutional food buyers who are feeding a large slice of the population-our schools’ students.
Cultivate Michigan Marketplace Opens in Petoskey, Feb. 13
What do you get when you mix farm to institution, speed dating and a trade show? The answer is Cultivate Michigan Marketplace events.
FoodCorps Seeks Applicants for School Food Changemakers
FoodCorps, a national organization that connects children in limited resource communities to healthy food in school, is accepting applications until March 15 for its seventh annual class of AmeriCorps service members.