Groundwork’s Building Resilient Communities program helps East Jordan Elementary expand its garden to table and Indigenous Foodways curriculum “Aanii boozhoo!” says Jen Lewis, East Jordan’s school garden coordinator from Wagbo Farm and Education Center. She welcomes...
Hello Jane Farms says bonjour to a new cooler, and more .... Beyond the perimeters of Petoskey and Harbor Springs, Emmet County is extensively rural, a quiet landscape of fertile hills and woodlands ripe with farming potential. Lifelong resident John Bailey recently...
Groundwork recently launched Building Resilient Communities (BRC), a program designed to increase the amount of nutritious, locally grown food served in community-focused sites throughout northwest Michigan. BRC aims to increase community health while building...
When COVID-19 hit, northwest lower Michigan’s food system was put to the test and showed remarkable strength. Can we be improve? You bet. Let’s take a look at how.
Food is most nutritious and delicious when it’s fresh from the farm, and that’s what food pantry customers receive through the Farm to Neighbor program.
Patients at a Petoskey ob/gyn clinic receive training in whole-foods cooking and help in purchasing as a way to increase the amount of healthy, fresh and local foods their families eat.