Resources

Get Grant Ready: How Farmers Can Use Cash Flow to Prepare for Funding Webinar – August 21, 2025

Published on August 27, 2025
In this webinar, food and farm business owners can learn how to use cash flow and profitability statements to prepare for grant opportunities.
Developing a Michigan Food Truck Business Concept: A Worksheet to Guide Your Business Planning

Published on August 13, 2025
This workbook provides guided questions and worksheets to support the development of a food truck business concept. It includes both a printable and a fillable digital version for ease of use.
Tribal Food Producer Information Session: Tracking expenses and sales – June 11, 2025

Published on June 26, 2025
Learn about tracking farm business expenses and sales using a sales and expense tracking sheet, including information on how to use this for tax purposes.
Preparing for Funding: A Self-Guided Learning Journey for Food and Farm Businesses

Published on June 19, 2025
This video series will guide food and farm business owners through the process of preparing for financing and grant funding
What you need to know: Loan Readiness for First Time Borrowers Webinar – June 4, 2025

Published on June 18, 2025
Applying for a loan is a big step for a small business, but it doesn’t have to be intimidating. Understanding the lending process is an essential step for growing your business and accessing federal funding.
Connecting Farm to Early Care and Education Standards, Guidance, and Resources

Published on June 4, 2025
This resource aims to aid in the documentation process for Early Care and Education (ECE) providers in Michigan by cross-walking the Michigan Early Learning Guidelines with examples and standards from other learning frameworks.
Value-Added Products from the Farm: Selling Farm Fresh Poultry in Michigan

Published on May 13, 2025
This publication includes an infographic and detailed information on options, regulations, and licensing for selling farm fresh poultry in Michigan.
10 Cents a Meal for Michigan's Kids and Farms 2023-2024 Legislative Report

Published on April 24, 2025
Every year, the Michigan Department of Education submits a report to the state legislature about 10 Cents a Meal, to which 10 Cents a Meal partners contribute. This report shares information about the impacts of the 10 Cents a Meal program in 2023-2024.
Tribal Food Producer Info Session: Preparing farm taxes — Resource Sheet

Published on March 31, 2025
Learn more about preparing farm taxes through this resource sheet and accompanying webinar from the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center.
Tribal Food Producer Information Session: Tax Preparation and Tax Resources – March 12, 2025

Published on March 24, 2025
Through this session hosted by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, Tribal food producers can learn about funding opportunities and the importance of tax recordkeeping.
Food Access to Food Sovereignty Workbook: A Spectrum of Food Systems Change

Published on February 27, 2025
This workbook, designed by Shiloh Maples, offers a model that is expansive and inclusive of all food systems change and emphasizes the interconnectedness of food movements.
Racial Equity & Food Justice Training Webinars

Published on February 26, 2025
Explore the intersection of racial equity and food justice with these two webinars and reflection worksheets from Shiloh Maples for the Michigan Local Food Council Network.
Insights Into the Stories of 10 Cents a Meal Farmers

Published on February 7, 2025
This publication shares key needs and themes reported by farmers to support their work supplying local foods to schools, ECEs, and 10 Cents a Meal program grantees.
2023 Legislative Education Day : Big Takeaways

Published on February 5, 2025
Since 2018, the Michigan Local Food Council Network (MLFCN) has hosted Legislative Education Days events, These events at the Michigan Capitol building in Lansing bring together representatives from a variety of food policy councils and communities.
An Annotated Bibliography on Structural Racism Present in the U.S. Food System, Eleventh Edition

Published on January 31, 2025
This resource serves as an annotated bibliography of resources and publications on structural racism in the U.S. food system. The eleventh edition contains over 700 annotated references.
Accounting for Food Businesses Webinars

Published on January 13, 2025
This five video series can be a great resource for operators working in incubator and shared use kitchens who seek to organize and understand their business' financial records.
Tribal Producer Information Session – December 5, 2024

Published on December 18, 2024
Through this information session hosted by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, viewers can learn about resources to support Tribal food producers.
Equitable Community Food Assessments webinars

Published on December 17, 2024
MSU Center for Regional Food Systems, Food Communities Network – Réseau Communautés Nourricières, and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future’s Food Policy Networks project co-hosted a webinar series on community food assessments in 2024.
Funding Sources for Food-Related Businesses, Digital Directory Edition

Published on December 9, 2024
Explore an overview of various financing sources available to food-related businesses in Michigan and across the United States through this new digital directory format.
What You Need to Know: Telling a Compelling Story – Resource Sheet

Published on December 9, 2024
Learn more about telling a compelling story to funders through this resource sheet and accompanying webinar from the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center.