The Northwest Michigan Food and Farming Network (FFN) recently announced eight mini-grants to organizations in the local food system.
Program to make choosing healthy food easier
Groundwork is partnering with the Health Department of Northwest Michigan (HDNWM) on a Building Healthy Communities program to make healthier food choices easier to make and ultimately impact our communities by reducing the incidence of chronic disease.
Taste the Local Difference: Resilience in Action
There’s a clear demand in the region for a marketing agency to promote local food, but is Groundwork the right place for such commercial work? Could TLD be viable as a self-sustaining business? Now, after two years of intense planning and collaboration with partners, it’s clear the answer is a resounding YES.
Food, culture, and economy take center stage at intertribal summit
As we all work to build resilient communities with strong local food economies as part of the core, we’ll find no finer examples than I saw at last week’s Great Lakes Intertribal Food Summit. And the food, oh the food!
Food and Farming Network releases fact sheets
The Northwest Michigan Food and Farming Network (FFN) has a brand new logo and five gorgeous new fact sheets highlighting progress in building northwest Michigan’s agricultural future.
Growing the local food economy while shrinking waistlines
A whopping 68 percent of residents of the five-county Traverse City region are overweight. The good news is that doctors, public health experts, and employers are teaming up with small farmers and getting creative.