June 9, 2008
Sometimes keepin’ up with the Joneses is a good thing. That’s when it’s called inspiration. Consider these vastly different lunch menus: One
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April 21, 2008
A Michigan lawmaker and a state agriculture agency are each taking steps to make it easier for schools to serve more locally grown fresh foods to their
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March 19, 2008
More than 300 people attended an historic conference in Traverse City last week to learn about purchasing, preparing and serving healthy, locally grown food at
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March 16, 2008
Here we were, 330 of the region’s professionals in school education, nutrition, and health, working to nudge fresh, wholesome local food into the center
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March 7, 2008
I had breakfast with Marty Heller and Michelle Ferrarese at their farm on the kind of February morning that makes most people want to go back to bed. But they
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February 7, 2008
When Frankfort-Elbert high schoolers staged a “strike” over the quality of their cafeteria food two years ago, their timing was perfect: School
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August 30, 2007
Years of doctoral study convinced Rob Sirrine that, when it comes to educating growers, it’s about a lot more than telling them how much nitrogen
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June 14, 2007
Most Sunday afternoons a small group of local people meet in a Leelanau County living room to discuss a very big idea: making it easier for new farmers and
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June 4, 2007
After PBS food show host Eric Villegas visited a school and a restaurant in northwest Michigan that serve locally grown food, he declared the area comparable
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May 18, 2007
One of the busiest people at the Michigan Land Use Institute’s recent Seeds of Prosperity conference was veteran lobbyist Jean Doss.
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