News

Be a smart gardener and protect lakes, streams and wetlands

Published on January 22, 2021
Check out our new Smart Gardening for Shorelands tip sheets to learn how you can landscape with water quality in mind.
Persevering Through the Pandemic

Published on January 22, 2021
Joy Johnson was able to continue her hands-on horticulture education with an summer internship in 2020 and then awarded the 2021 GPN/Nexus Intern of the Year.
Extension Master Gardeners receive recognition for many hours of volunteering in Upper Peninsula communities

Published on January 22, 2021
Extension Master Gardeners contributed over 1,000 volunteer hours in 2020 amounting to nearly $29,000 to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula communities.
Weekly Beet - January 22, 2021

Published on January 22, 2021
In this weeks issue: Focus Tour - Soil health, various workshops, training and presentations. Key Audit Survey due.
Food bank gardening with surprising yields

Published on January 21, 2021
Kalamazoo County’s Giving Garden provides fresh produce to the food-insecure population.
Cultivating student leadership through farm to school in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Published on January 21, 2021
A collaboration between community partners and MSU will build from existing farm to school partnerships and develop high school student leadership.
10 Cents a Meal Grants Awarded to 138 Statewide Applicants

Published on January 21, 2021
138 Michigan schools, school districts, and early childhood centers serving over 406,000 children have been awarded grants from the 10 Cents a Meal program to improve daily nutrition and eating habits for children.
AFRE senior learns the business side of the dairy industry

Published on January 20, 2021
Agribusiness management student Lynn Olthof builds on her experiences from her grandparents’ dairy farm, 4-H and FFA.
Many circumstances during 2020 affected Michigan’s commercial fishing industry

Published on January 20, 2021
Pandemic and restaurant closures, fishing regulations and legislation among challenges faced.
Imagine Michigan Household Faucets Never Running Dry

Published on January 19, 2021
Imagine our community water systems providing sustainable and continuous access to affordable and clean drinking water for their service area population. We will examine institutions, rules, and processes that govern community drinking water systems.