The much-anticipated 2012 federal Farm Bill appears to be on a head spinning, super-fast track, so the time to weigh in with lawmakers is now. This is happening because the Congressional “Super Committee,” charged with devising a deficit-cutting budget...
The Michigan Land Use Institute’s Get Farming! project got off to a great start for the “workshop season” last week with three quality programs. On Thursday, October 27th, we participated in a program sponsored by our friends at ISLAND (the Institute for Sustainable...
This weekend I took a drive out to the Kastanu Chestnut Farm in Kewadin and picked chestnuts for the first time. It was great fun! I had no idea that the chestnuts would be on the ground, rather than on the tree, and that they would already be...
Last week was an exciting time at Munson Medical Center as they hosted their very first end-of-season farmers market on campus in Traverse City. Four farms were invited to come and sell their produce to employees and visitors alike. In a spot just outside the parking...
Author says conscious consumers must become engaged citizens
The Michigan Land Use Institute is proud to announce that two of the first 50 FoodCorps Service Members nationwide are hard at work right here in northwest Lower Michigan. Daniel Marbury and Kirsten Gerbatsch are helping a pilot group of schools to purchase...