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Greenhouse, Garden, Classroom, Cafeteria … FoodCorps Folk Are Busy
A FOOD CORPS TEAM UPDATE FoodCorps is a nationwide program aimed at providing students with access to nourishing food and food education in their schools. FoodCorps achieves this goal by connecting Food Education service members with students in the classroom,...
A Farmer Sells to a Nearby School — and a Transformation Begins
So, what is Farm to School, actually? I know that seems to be a question with a really obvious answer: “Something is grown on a farm and sold to a nearby school for children to eat.” But that’s only a small part of the rich and full answer to, “What is Farm to...
What’s Ahead for NMC’s Great Lakes Culinary Institute?
A conversation with Director and Chef Les Eckert. (Pictured above at Lakeview Hill Farm, Leelanau County.) We invited Chef Les Eckert, director of the Great Lakes Culinary Institute since June 2019, to give us a sense for how the institute is evolving and how the next...