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A Look Back at 22 Years of Groundwork Service

A Look Back at 22 Years of Groundwork Service

Mar 28, 2022 | Clean Energy, Food & Farming, Transportation & Community Design

Above: Protector of the planet, inspirer of people, friend to all dogs, Jim Lively. When I joined the Michigan Land Use Institute in 2000, it was an upstart, brash group of journalists making waves with government officials and developers by wielding incisive writing...

8 New Videos Celebrate Farm to School in Michigan!

8 New Videos Celebrate Farm to School in Michigan!

Mar 24, 2022 | Farm to School, Food & Farming, News

The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) just launched seven farm to school videos highlighting important aspects of farm to school programming in Michigan. The videos include interviews with a wide variety of farm to school champions and stakeholders from across...

OKEMOS’S BLUE MITTEN FARMS JUMPS INTO CAPITAL REGION’S FARM TO SCHOOL MARKET

OKEMOS’S BLUE MITTEN FARMS JUMPS INTO CAPITAL REGION’S FARM TO SCHOOL MARKET

Mar 17, 2022 | 10 Cents a Meal, Farm to School, Food & Farming

Above: Scott Zomerlei, Garden Planner/Engineer, left, and Phil Raymond II, right, General Manager/Sales Representative, Blue Mitten Farms. When you consider agricultural land, a suburban community like Okemos isn’t usually the first place that comes to mind. Situated...

Boosting Local Food Momentum, One $2,000 Grant at a Time

Boosting Local Food Momentum, One $2,000 Grant at a Time

Jan 18, 2022 | Building Resilient Communities, Farmer Support, Food & Farming, Food Access

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...

Lettuce Work Together: Artesian Farm and New Buffalo Area Schools’ Spirited Partnership

Lettuce Work Together: Artesian Farm and New Buffalo Area Schools’ Spirited Partnership

Dec 11, 2021 | 10 Cents a Meal, Farm to School, Food & Farming

Talk about spirit. It all started with an October 2015 farm to school event at New Buffalo Area Schools, located in Michigan’s southwest corner. The school served its students kale chips from beautiful greens grown by local grower Artesian Farm—which was then doing...

Celebrating Farm to School Month in Michigan

Celebrating Farm to School Month in Michigan

Oct 14, 2021 | 10 Cents a Meal, Farm to School, Food & Farming

First published in the Traverse City Record-Eagle Above photo: Local food at Beaver Island Community School Imagine this: Your children come home from school to tell you about the kale flowers they ate in the school garden today with Miss Hope, and then ask if your...

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