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...
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...
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...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LANSING, Mich. (Sept. 30, 2021) - The Michigan Department of Education (MDE) has announced 229 grantees for the initial round of 10 Cents A Meal for Michigan's Kids & Farms grants for the 2021-22 school year. The state-funded...
The passion is breathtaking. Hundreds of schools, early childhood education centers, after school programs, and others have hit “submit” or “save” on applications to the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) for the 10 Cents a Meal for Michigan’s Kids &...
Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed HB 4411, the $17.1 billion K-12 budget, into law yesterday afternoon, surrounded by students and faculty at East Kentwood High School. The bill accounts for the largest single-year School Aid Fund budget ever passed by the state, and...