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Our Voices: Good School Food in the News
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- Mark Coe: Having had the oppertunity to present at a local school with Meghan and Leanna, supporting the work Food Corps does is a wonderful thing. They provide a learning oppertunity to our children in agricu...
- Linda Hutchinson: Great! Having been raised on a farm, near Arcadia, I wish my dad who was a Farmer's Market regular in the 60's, 70's and 80's, was here to be involved in the "farm to table" and "local food" initiati...
- Dale Scheiern: It is easy to store and enjoy all winter long too!! Take 1 qt. freezer bags, fill to the point they will lay fairly flat ( not rounded) so they stack easily in the freezer. Local fruit all winter lo...
- Sharron May, The May Farm: You are correct if you are referring to industrial monocultures of animal or plant agriculture which are extractive, organic or not. Fortunately there are small farms pioneering more regenerative prac...
- LillyM: I've been fortunate enough to meet and work with Lianna and hope to meet Meghan. Every FoodCorps volunteer I have met over the years has been incredible. A phenomenal organization with dedicated and...
Did you see the news? Schools in northwest Michigan were cooking up local food and fun activities all fall, and these tasty school food efforts stirred up some great media attention. We’re highlighting a lot of links to great media coverage of our region’s farm to school activities
Check out this press advisory to see how busy our region was in October for Farm to School Month. November started busy, too, with this event.
Our Northwest Michigan FoodCorps members, Daniel Marbury and Kirsten Gerbatsch, were at the core of a lot of this great activity. Here’s a TV link, a photo spread in the Traverse City Record-Eagle, a link to a Leelanau Enterprise article, and an article on Benzie and Suttons Bay programs that were featured in the Grand Traverse Insider. Daniel also was featured in the national online magazine Grist, and Kirsten was featured in a CNN blog.
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| Daniel Marbury serves up fresh local squash to Interlochen Elementary students. |
Here’s great TV coverage on the school food initiative at Grand Traverse Area Catholic Schools.
There’s more coming. For example, the home economics class at Frankfort High School cut local corn-on-the-cob and froze it so it could be served at a special, upcoming Christmas lunch at school.
And, hot-off-the-press, here’s a news announcement from Cherry Capital Foods, a local foods distributor in northwest and west Michigan. The company has big news about an 800 percent increase in orders from schools for the products that our region’s farms grow.
