Groundwork’s Petoskey-based team shares favorite quotes and conversations from their work in 2018.
Articles by Jen Schaap
Strength in Working Together
A look at five Farm to School programs in Charlevoix County that have been helped along by donations from the Charlevoix County Community Foundation. (Alice Waters called one a national model!)
Building the Farm to School Momentum on Beaver Island
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.
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.