Taste the Local Difference

Get Farming!
Helps growers and other
food entrepreneurs with
business tools and land connections.

Contact: Jim Sluyter
Get Farming! Policy Specialist
jimsluyter@mlui.org

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Find information on our Get Farming! workshops and other events in the area.

Workshops

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Online training, tools, and information for food entrepreneurs from newbie to veteran.

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Our Journalism

Mar 16, 2012
Snyder Samples Traverse' Local Food Efforts
When Governor Snyder visited a Traverse City school recently, he heard about “10 Cents a Meal for School Kids and Farms,” a new local food project. ...more

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Mar 12, 2012
Know Your Farmer
The Michigan Land Use Institute is launching a new Know Your Farmer marketing tool as a companion to the successful Taste the Local Difference Food and Farm Guide that is a directory to more than 200 of the region’s farms and their products. ...more

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The Get Farming! project pointed the camera at experts on shitake mushrooms, seed saving, deer fencing, soil blocks, CSA, hoophouses, and more.

Videos

Calendar of Events

5.10 Garlic Mustard Hunt
5.11-5.13 Mesick Mushroom Fesitval
5.13 Mama Mia! Trattoria Stella
5.13 Mother's Day Morel and Leek Walk
5.15 Strategies for Productive Gardening
5.16 & 5.18: High Tunnel Work-bee at Central Lake School
5.19-5.20 Old Mission Blossom Days
5.19-5.20 Empire Asparagus Festival
5.26 Michigan Beer and Brat Festival
6/23 2012 Michigan Good Food Summit

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Find farms selling to schools for meals, snacks, and fundraisers; schools buying from them; and school garden, field trip, and curriculum help.

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