Tribal Food Producer Information Session — September
September 10, 2025 12:30PM - 1:30PM EST | 11:30AM - 12:30PM CST
Registration Deadline: September 9, 2025 - 11:59PM
Contact: Jamie Rahrig
Join the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center for a meeting on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 to connect and learn.
September 10, 2025, 12:30 PM EST | 11:30 AM CST
Resources are available for Tribal food producers. The Tribal Food Producer Information Session will provide updates on resources to support growing businesses in the Midwest.
The session will be facilitated by Jen Falck (Oneida Nation), owner of Kahulahele Farmstead and Partnership Program Coordinator of the Menominee Indian Tribe’s Department of Agriculture and Food Systems. Jen will be joined by speakers Jazmin Bolan-Williamson and Jamie Rahrig of Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems.
Meeting hosts:
- Jen Falck (Oneida Nation) works for the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture & Food Systems. She has professional experience in environmental health, food safety, tribal administration, and tribal legislation. Her current projects include the Wisconsin Tribal Elder Food Box Program, developing a Menominee Food Code, and helping to rebuild Menominee foodways. Jen is married and has a twenty-one year old daughter in college, a few dogs, and a menagerie of farm animals. Jen and her husband manage Kahulahele Farmstead, an eight acre farmstead which focuses on food sovereignty, restorative agriculture, conscious animal husbandry, building community, and resilience through bartering.
- Jazmin Bolan-Williamson works for the Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems where she provides business assistance to food and farm businesses in Michigan. Jazmin supports businesses preparing for financing and developing their business model through one-on-one engagement and resource development.
- Jamie Rahrig works for the Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems and Product Center where she coordinates assistance across the Great Lakes Midwest region, co-leads the Michigan Food Hub Network, and evaluates Center programs. Jamie is the lead author of Funding Sources for Food Related Businesses, an online directory of funding resources including crowdfunding, accelerators, and lending programs.
Join us Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 12:30 PM EST | 11:30 AM CST on Zoom, to learn and connect. This session will be recorded and shared at glm-rfbc.msu.edu and on Youtube.
Register by Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 11:59 PM
For more information, email glm-rfbc@msu.edu or visit glm-rfbc.msu.edu.
About the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition
The Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition works to heal communities by strengthening Indigenous food networks. Their Tribal Elder Food Box Program provides nutrition, culturally meaningful foods for Tribal members over 55 years old. In 2022, the program reached all 11 tribes in Wisconsin, delivering over 24,400 boxes.
About the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center
The Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center is dedicated to offering coordination, technical assistance, and capacity building opportunities for farmers, producers, and other food business owners, in support of a more resilient and competitive food system. Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems (MI) coordinates the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center that is comprised of network coordinators – Chicago Food Policy Action Council (IL), Northwest Indiana Food Council (IN), Food Finance Institute of the University of Wisconsin System (WI), and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Food Systems – who seek to take a transformational, rather than transactional, approach. Learn more at glm-rfbc.msu.edu
Per the USDA announcement on July 15, 2025, the Regional Food Business Center program has been terminated. The Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center will continue operations through mid-September. More information is available here.
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