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Doodle's Sugarbush honored with 2025 Value-Added Agriculture Award from MSU Product Center
Published on May 7, 2025
The Blanchard-based maple syrup company is recognized for their product variety and expansive wholesale market. -
MSU Product Center honors Furniture City Creamery with the 2025 Barrier Buster Award
Published on May 7, 2025
The Grand Rapids-based ice cream company is recognized for their recent expansion. -
Charlevoix Cheese Company recognized with 2025 Start-Up to Watch Award at Making It In Michigan Conference
Published on May 7, 2025
Persistence pays off for farmstead cheese entrepreneurs. -
Founder of drench LLC, recognized as the MSU Product Center’s 2025 Entrepreneur of the Year
Published on May 7, 2025
Karen Akouri of drench LLC, a Detroit-based salad dressing company, was recognized at the 2025 Making It In Michigan event for achieving entrepreneurial business success. -
Great Lakes Tinned Fish wins MSU Product Center’s 2025 Young Innovator Award
Published on May 7, 2025
The Grand Rapids-based company is the first Midwest-based tinned fish company to source exclusively from the Great Lakes region. -
A fearless force for good
Published on May 6, 2025
Celebrating the impactful career and legacy of MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Professor Emeritus Dr. Eunice Foster. -
Biophilic urbanism is the new frontier in community health
Published on May 2, 2025
Promoting biophilic urbanism in master planning is one way that planners can work to positively impact the health of a community. -
What to plant in your landscape to deter deer
Published on April 25, 2025
Plan your landscaping to deter deer and mitigate damage. -
What is, or is not, a charrette?
Published on April 25, 2025
Charrette is a very specific type of public involvement system for design and planning projects. Do not be fooled by people calling every public participation event a charrette. -
Category 4 sites under the Right to Farm Act Site Selection GAAMP
Published on April 25, 2025
Site Selection GAAMP provides local authority to permit livestock keeping in primarily residential areas -
Nurturing Roots of Justice: New resources for K-12 food systems education in Michigan
Published on April 23, 2025
Michigan educators can now access the Nurturing Roots of Justice food systems education resource hub and MI Food Stories Facilitator Guide. -
Free trainings for educators working with beginning farmers offered this spring and summer
Published on April 23, 2025
Join us for an engaging, hands-on train-the-trainer workshop designed for educators working with beginning farmers! -
People count: Population growth leads to basic economic growth, part 3
Published on April 10, 2025
Population growth is economic growth, which makes taking steps to attract people to move to a community an important strategy. -
Prosperity comes from a focus on people, policy and place on a regional scale, part 5
Published on April 10, 2025
It takes a region to provide the places, variety, resources and attributes to attract people; economic development also needs to be coordinated among state, regional, educational, local government and private sectors. -
Leadership, democracy, and the lessons we can learn from nature
Published on March 19, 2025
Bees, baboons, and ballots can all teach us a thing or two about leadership.
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