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.

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 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.
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.
Last year at this time, the future for Michigan’s 10 Cents a Meal for School Kids & Farms program was iffy. This year, thankfully, legislators aren’t debating whether or not to continue the popular program, but instead how to expand it.
The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) released its 2017-2018 Legislative Report on the 10 Cents a Meal for School Kids & Farms pilot program on Tuesday, March 20.
Oregon taxpayers are pleased with the $7.5 million that some Oregon school districts spent on Oregon foods since 2011 with just $600,000 in state incentive. Now lawmakers have nearly quadrupled the level of support over the next two years and expanded the incentive program to all schools.