The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment is enforcing a new policy that threatens the livelihoods of small farms raising heritage breeds of pigs that are popular with chefs and others buying in local food markets.
Articles by Diane Conners
Snyder Samples TC’s Local Food Efforts
New “10 cents” project advocates for an additional dime to be spent on each student’s meal in local schools.
Our Voices: Goal: 20 Percent Local Food by 2020
The Northwest Michigan Food & Farming Network set an ambitious goal Friday of increasing the amount of food purchased locally in our region to 20 percent by 2020. Local advocates for a better food system gathered with educators, farmers, business...
Farmers Find New Markets in Local Schools
An excerpt of this story from February 13, 2012, appears in our September 2017 Farm to School report, “Healthy Kids, Thriving Farms”, which celebrates Groundwork’s 15 years of catalyzing the farm to school movement in northern Michigan.
Our Voices: Farmers Find New Markets in Local Schools
Farmer Jim Schwantes almost didn’t come. But Schwantes, who grows vegetables north of Cedar, set aside his skepticism and ventured out on a snowy day last week to join nearly 30 other growers at the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center, in Leelanau...
Schools Seek Local Food; Set Meeting with Farmers
January 23, 2012 Contact: Diane Conners, Senior Policy Specialist Michigan Land Use Institute Phone: 231-941-6584 ext. 16 Email: diane@mlui.org • Web site: www.localdifference.org TRAVERSE CITY—Farmers and local food distributors interested...