Resources
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Michigan Farmer Market Vendor Journey Map and Recorded Presentation
Published on September 12, 2025
The Michigan Farmers Market Vendor Journey Map is a free, step-by-step guide for new farmers and food producers. It covers licensing, marketing, display tips, and prep essentials to help you succeed at your first farmers market -
Food Hub Receiving Process Checklist and Template
Published on September 12, 2025
Good quality product begins at the receiving door. This short video and templated document provide food hubs with a checklist of items to consider as they build out their internal receiving processes. -
From Kitchen to Grocery Shelves
Published on September 11, 2025
This video series will guide food producers to take their packaged food idea from the kitchen all the way to the retailer. -
Tribal Food Producer Information Session: Requirements of Packaged Food Products – September 10, 2025
Published on September 10, 2025
This Tribal Food Producer Info session hosted by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center discussed available resources pertaining to the requirements of packaging and marketing food products. -
Driving Demand: Identifying your Target Consumer and Crafting a Story that Will Sell – August 27, 2025
Published on September 9, 2025
This webinar from the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center guides food and farm businesses through understanding their customers to increase their sales. -
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.
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