What does farm to school means in Michigan, and how can you participate? Inside you'll find resources to help you get started and contacts that can help you grow your farm to school program.
Programas de Head Start Migrante y Estacional pueden aprender a comprar y usar más alimentos cultivados localmente en sus programas que sirven niños de trabajadores agrícolas migrantes y estacionales.
How did Michigan benefit from 10 Cents a Meal for School Kids and Farms? Read about the impacts in the Michigan Department of Education's 2018-2019 Legislative Report.
What were the impacts of 10 Cents a Meal in 2017-18? View the survey results of the program's second year! The full report and the executive summary are available here.
This guide provides suggestions and parameters for hoophouse planting, crop spacing, realistic yields, common cultivars, and direct market and wholesale pack sizes and pricing.
Results from a brief survey asking institutional food service buyers how they know that their suppliers have followed safe food production and handling practices.
Using the step-by-step instructions and interactive tools, Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs can learn how to purchase and use more local foods in their programs serving children of migrant and seasonal farmworkers.
This chapter examines three arenas that have advanced farm-to-institution activity in the Michigan: state government policy, non-profit and agriculture extension agency facilitation, and supply chain partnerships.
Chef Sean Gartland prepares three healthy recipes that include locally grown products. Each video shows how easy it is to prepare local, healthy, and affordable foods with children of different ages in the kitchen.
These reports summarize the results of the 2016-2017 pilot of 10 Cents a Meal for School Kids and Farms, a project that provides up to 10 cents per meal in match funding for participating schools to purchase and serve Michigan-grown products.
Learn how Hoophouses for Health helps Michigan children and families have better access to good food while supporting Michigan farmers and increasing season extension food production.
The MI Farm to School Grant Program is an effort to help food program providers overcome challenges and stimulate or sustain local food purchasing programs at K–12 schools and early childhood programs in Michigan.