Editors Note: This article first appeared in the Traverse City Record Eagle on Saturday December 3, 2011. During the holiday season we often think about food, and about giving. These days, I’m thinking about local food, and local giving....
Articles by Diane Conners
Our Voices: Good School Food in the News
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...
Our Voices: Contact lawmakers on the Farm Bill today!
The much-anticipated 2012 federal Farm Bill appears to be on a head spinning, super-fast track, so the time to weigh in with lawmakers is now. This is happening because the Congressional “Super Committee,” charged with devising a deficit-cutting budget...
Congress: Don’t Be Tardy on Farm to School
Betti Wiggins, operations manager for food service in Detroit Public Schools, is determined to serve more Michigan-grown fresh fruits and vegetables to the 52,000 kids she feeds at lunchtime each day.
McCain, Roberts, and Chambliss: Wrong, Wrong, and Wrong
I just spent five days in Phoenix, Ariz., with 650 farmers, researchers, health professionals, young people, and community advocates from across the country who are working on new markets for farms, economic development for communities, and healthy diets for children-based largely on buying, selling, and eating locally grown foods.
Detroit Farm to School Conference Set For May
Michigan is set to hear from some of the leading innovators of farm to school programs in the country during the Taking Root: National Farm to Cafeteria Conference in Detroit in May. And that’s not all.