From the Motor City to Copper Country in the reaches of the Keweenaw Peninsula, 10 Cents a Meal for Michigan’s Kids & Farms is making an impact across the state! Here in Lansing, where I’m based, a new legislative class is upon us and the cogs and gears of...
ABOVE PHOTO: Some school food jobs now involve helping manage and teach classes in hoop houses. Pellston schools hoop house shown under construction. My first job in northwest Michigan was at a Montessori school. It was 2006, and I saw how four- and five-year-olds...
ABOVE PHOTO: Lunches for Detroit students packed for home delivery in early days of COVID. I remember a blizzardy day nine years ago when area farmers packed the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Station in Leelanau County to hear area school food service...
Public Schools of Petoskey offers a shining example of how schools — and children — are becoming fans of the produce that local farms grow, providing increased sales. Consider this: in 2015 Petoskey Food Service Director Beth Kavanaugh tried farm-to-school...
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