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A Good Food Road Show It was chefs, not carny barkers, who excited youngsters at the Northwestern Michigan Fair’s Cooking with Kids session. The chefs ...more
Region Sets Table for Healthier Kids Imagine school food service directors creating a regional cookbook that features seasonal, kid-friendly, healthy, locally grown foods. Or ...more
 December 1, 2009 Kalamazoo: Oh, the Webs They Weave! The rise of Kalamazoo’s strong Good Food movement is all about people—and about how one good thing often leads to another when ...more
November 19, 2009 Kalamazoo: Hospital Digs into Local Food The thing to know about Michael Rowe, food service director for Bronson Methodist Hospital, is that, in just two years, he’s taken ...more
November 9, 2009 Kalamazoo: Getting Ready for Good Food Often, big changes start with big ideas from “little people,” even when it’s something as big as the Dot-Com Era, which ...more
Decentralize, Diversify, Localize: Our conversation today starts with a major point of agreement: Our food supply has become very fragile. We are gathered here to tackle the ...more
August 31, 2009 Benton Harbor: Colleges Stock Up, Save on Local Foods Some things just add up. Moves by two colleges in southwest Lower Michigan to preserve fresh local produce in the summer for winter meals ...more
August 21, 2009 Benton Harbor: Pulling Together Food and Farm Leaders The group of people that sat down together this spring at Benton Harbor City Hall was small but powerful. Representing farmers, economic ...more
August 18, 2009 All Aboard the SW Mich. Good Food Tour! The community garden on the northeast side of Grand Rapids is serene. Clear air and eager sunlight set the young lettuce leaves and ...more
 July 8, 2009 Food Safety Moves Could Harm Local Farm Prospects With national recalls of meat, peanut butter, spinach, and other food products eroding confidence in our global food system, shoppes want ...more
Farm Markets Boost Sales via ‘Food Stamp’ Cards Farmer Paul Fuhr remembers the first time he saw a shopper use “electronic food stamps” at Detroit’s Eastern Market, ...more
 March 31, 2009 How to Make Local Food Work for Michigan Michigan may be the nation’s best-situated state for growing green jobs. And that goes well beyond manufacturing expertise: The ...more
Summer Flowers, Winter Lettuce: Year-Round Success Farmer Mark Elzinga had a simple question about Donna McClurkan’s attempt to eat only food produced within 100 miles of hometown ...more
Obama Stimulus Targets Fresh, Local Food The Obama administration’s stimulus package can help schools purchase new kitchen equipment—as long as they are quick on the ...more
Report: Farming a N.W. Michigan Heavyweight Farms in northwest Lower Michigan have substantial opportunities to boost their profits by tapping into new, better-paying local and ...more
Coast to Coast, a New Food Network When Brian Snyder spoke at the inaugural National Good Food Network conference, he poked a hole in some conventional wisdom. According to ...more
December 26, 2008 Lansing Passes a Farm-to-School Test Michigan’s lawmakers and the governor just gave school children, farmers, and the state’s economy a tasty end-of-year holiday ...more
 December 11, 2008 Local Food Means Local Infrastructure When most people hear the word “infrastructure,” they think of roads and bridges or water systems and communications towers. ...more
December 2, 2008 Welcoming Local Food Businesses In early 2008, schools all across the country were throwing away hamburger patties, burrito filling, and other beef products after a ...more
November 26, 2008 Entrepreneurs: Growing Local Food, and a Movement Wayne Kyle, who grows about 1 million pounds of blueberries each year, sees a lot of good in re-localizing agriculture, both for his ...more
November 23, 2008 Local, State Officials Can Boost Local Food Economies Michigan families and businesses are rebuilding regional distribution systems to bring more good, locally grown food to more people. There ...more
November 20, 2008 More Michigan Farms, Food Firms ‘Thinking Local’ The quest by consumers for local food is opening doors for local farms, food businesses, and communities. But moving through those doors is ...more
November 16, 2008 Michigan Tastes Local Food's Potential Lee Arboreal’s farm is growing, but not by competing with California lettuce or Chilean strawberries. It is producing products for ...more
4-H, Farm-to-School Meet at County Fair It’s county fair time, when the scent of cotton candy, smoked pork sandwiches, hay, and manure mix in the air. And, at the Northwest ...more
KC Food Pioneer: ‘Yes You Can!’ This year, the Michigan Land Use Institute celebrated the publication of its fifth annual Taste the Local Difference farm food guide with a ...more |
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