Farms, Food & Health
Culinary Medicine
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Your support of our Culinary Medicine program enables us to partner with local medical practices and health organizations to train professionals and laypeople in healthier ways of cooking and eating.
Groundwork’s Culinary Medicine program work is often done through consulting with other organizations. Below are some good examples.
- Working with the Father Fred food pantry to offer guidance in sourcing local food to improve the nutrition quality of produce.
- Launched a teaching kitchen in Traverse City, in which we will play a managing role.
- Helped design and run a cooking class that met six evenings at a physician’s office to teach cooking skills and local food cooking know-how. (Titled “Dinner With Your Doctor,” the class met at Munson Family Practice.)
- Worked with McLaren Northern Michigan, Petoskey, to help implement a Prescription for Produce program.
- Collaborate as part of the MiThrive Community Health Assessment Northern Michigan
TAKE ACTION!
- The Groundwork YouTube channel has several videos of culinary medicine presentations from our September 2019 Farms, Food & Health Conference—begin your education here.
- Bring basic principles of culinary medicine cooking into your home kitchen.
- For more information about our Farms, Food & Health program, contact Groundwork Food and Farming Policy Specialist, Paula Martin.
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Resources
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Culinary Medicine News
Michigan’s school kids need farm-fresh food
This op-ed first published in The Detroit News. In Michigan, the importance of farm fresh food in schools cannot be overstated. This is a crucial time for the state when it comes to these issues because now more young people than ever are going hungry and need...
How every Michigan food pantry can partner with local farmers
This op-ed first published in Bridge Michigan. I’m thinking of a day a few years back when I witnessed something that was plain on the surface, but which was actually evidence of a micro-revolution in food access, and it happened in a Traverse City parking lot. It...
Urban Farmer and Policy Specialist Shares Thoughts on the MI Healthy Climate Conference
I joined the staff here at Groundwork in November 2022 and became a team member on the Food and Farming team. I currently work on the 10 Cents a Meal Program, and also come to Groundwork with experience as an urban farmer in my base of Detroit. Because of this, I...