Food & Farming
Farmer support
For nearly 20 years Groundwork has worked to build the local food economy. This work is based on the understanding that local food is nutritionally dense and best for health, increases local farm incomes, and helps the environment by keeping farmland secure and safe from development. Food system work is a team sport, and we work extensively with partners within the farming community in these endeavors.
REGIONAL NETWORKS
Groundwork actively supports regional networks that support local farmers. Learn more about these regional networks here.
TASTE THE LOCAL DIFFERENCE
Conceived and incubated as a Groundwork marketing project and has turned into an ever-growing standalone company. Taste the Local Difference educates consumers about the value of local food, and supports food and farming entrepreneurs in building successful, well-connected, and thoughtful businesses. Learn more about the company here.
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Farmer Support News
Local food access federal funds OK’d (Your advocacy mattered!)
This article first published in the Traverse City Record-Eagle Agriculture Forum. Earlier this year, Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities urged all who want healthy food access in their communities to call their federal representatives and tell them to support...
Resilient Relationships, Resilient Supply
This article is the first in a three-part series in which we explore the work being done to expand local food economies along Michigan's west coast. The program is one of just a handful of similar USDA pilot programs in the entire nation, and they are...
Locally grown food strengthens our nation’s security and resilience
This forum piece first published in Bridge Michigan. We all remember those weeks of food scarcity as the pandemic began its terrible sweep across the nation in spring of 2020. Photos of empty grocery store shelves played across TV screens. The web streamed images of...