100% Clean Energy comes to Traverse City and Petoskey, the Farms Food and Health Conference gears up, Christie Minervini joins our Board of Directors, and more program updates.
GROUNDWORK News
10 Cents a Meal was vetoed from the state budget. Here’s how it can be restored.
Michigan Governor Whitmer used her line-item veto to cut funding from the nationally acclaimed 10 Cents a Meal farm to school lunch initiative for fy19-20. Groundwork’s Diane Conners shares ideas on how we can persuade lawmakers to resurrect the funding.
Walk-Ins Welcome! Free Healthy Food Expo with Cooking Demonstrations and Presentations
Stop by our healthy food Expo 10am-430pm, Friday, September 27, Hagerty Center, Traverse City. Tips and techniques for delicious and doable healthy dishes and engaging presentations.
Meet Harvest Solar, the Providing Sponsor for 2019 Harvest at the Commons
Harvest Solar is ushering in a clean energy transformation on Michigan farms … and they are the Providing Sponsor for Harvest at the Commons dinner. Meet this forward-moving company.
Keynote Speakers Event. Public Invited! Farms, Food & Health Conference
Reserve Friday, September 27, to hear three remarkable keynote speakers explore the health potential of local food at our Farms, Food & Health Conference, Traverse City.
Harvest Dinner Spotlight: Young Farmers Say Follow Your Farming Dream
This young farming couple-Bailey Samp and John Dindia-will be providing some of the locally grown bounty at Harvest at the Commons. Their advice to others who nurture a farming dream: Go for it.