From the earliest days of our Farms, Food & Health program—with its emphasis on culinary medicine methods—we have worked closely with physicians and other medical professionals to spread the word about the importance of cooking and eating nutritionally rich,...
It was my first time driving on the East Coast, and I was headed to meet with Chef Dan Giusti of Brigaid, a company he formed to place professionally trained chefs in schools. Dan had recently left the two-star Michelin restaurant Noma, in Copenhagen, to work in...
ABOVE PHOTO: Some school food jobs now involve helping manage and teach classes in hoop houses. Pellston schools hoop house shown under construction. My first job in northwest Michigan was at a Montessori school. It was 2006, and I saw how four- and five-year-olds...
Groundwork’s new Policy Specialist, Nathan Medina, has signed on to help make sure the healthy school-food program 10 Cents a Meal for Michigan's Kids & Farms keeps receiving essential funding from the state. As time goes on, we’ll no doubt be tapping his...
As part of our series “Milestones … and Milestones in the Making,” we invited Patty Cantrell to reflect on the formative days of our Food & Farming program.
Farm to Neighbor is an innovative program that helps farms by giving them a new market for their produce and helps food pantry families with fresh, delicious and healthy food.