December 21, 2009
Imagine school food service directors creating a regional cookbook that features seasonal, kid-friendly, healthy, locally grown foods. Or students in the fresh
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December 1, 2009
The rise of Kalamazoo’s strong Good Food movement is all about people—and about how one good thing often leads to another when those people are
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November 19, 2009
The thing to know about Michael Rowe, food service director for Bronson Methodist Hospital, is that, in just two years, he’s taken the facility from zero
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November 9, 2009
Often, big changes start with big ideas from “little people,” even when it’s something as big as the Dot-Com Era, which involved just a few
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September 30, 2009
Our conversation today starts with a major point of agreement: Our food supply has become very fragile. We are gathered here to tackle the fact that our food
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August 31, 2009
Some things just add up. Moves by two colleges in southwest Lower Michigan to preserve fresh local produce in the summer for winter meals have proved to be
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August 21, 2009
The group of people that sat down together this spring at Benton Harbor City Hall was small but powerful. Representing farmers, economic developers, local
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August 18, 2009
The community garden on the northeast side of Grand Rapids is serene. Clear air and eager sunlight set the young lettuce leaves and turned-up dirt aglow as
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July 8, 2009
With national recalls of meat, peanut butter, spinach, and other food products eroding confidence in our global food system, shoppes want to know more about
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July 1, 2009
Farmer Paul Fuhr remembers the first time he saw a shopper use “electronic food stamps” at Detroit’s Eastern Market, where he sells apples,
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