Leaders from across the Grand Traverse region gathered last month to start looking for ways to make sure that The Grand Vision-a six-county, 50-year, citizen-based growth plan-and one of the area’s top industries-farming-work well together to strengthen the local economy while preserving the region’s rural character.

Jim Sluyter: Hop To It!
I made my first batch of homebrew in 1975 or so. It was pretty bad.
Keeping up with the Jones, Tastefully
An excerpt of this story from June 9, 2008, appears in our September 2017 Farm to School report, “Healthy Kids, Thriving Farms”, which celebrates Groundwork’s 15 years of catalyzing the farm to school movement in northern Michigan.
Conference to Share Schools’ Local-Food Success Secrets
An excerpt of this story from February 7, 2008, appears in our September 2017 Farm to School report, “Healthy Kids, Thriving Farms”, which celebrates Groundwork’s 15 years of catalyzing the farm to school movement in northern Michigan.
‘Farm Raisers’ Make Cents for Schools
An excerpt of this story from August 8, 2006, appears in our September 2017 Farm to School report, “Healthy Kids, Thriving Farms”, which celebrates Groundwork’s 15 years of catalyzing the farm to school movement in northern Michigan.
Farm to School Programs Please Kids, Enrich Farmers
An excerpt of this story from April 16, 2005, appears in our forthcoming “Healthy Kids, Thriving Farms” Farm to School report, which celebrates Groundwork’s 15 years of catalyzing the farm to school movement in northern Michigan.