Center for Regional Food Systems

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  What is Farm to ECE? Chances are you’re already doing it

  Published on March 20, 2023
  Farm to Early Care and Education is a collection of activities and strategies that connects young children to gardening and locally sourced foods.

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  Charter Discussion Guide for Councils

  Published on March 17, 2023
  The goal of this discussion guide is to support councils to make connections between their work and the MI Good Food Charter. This guide can support your team to understand how The Charter can validate and give power to the work you are already doing.

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  Producing a Value-Added Product on the Farm Series

  Published on March 13, 2023
  Producing a value-added product on your farm can be a great way to generate additional revenue. The information on this sheet may help you decide if adding a product is right for your farm business and take you through the major steps involved.

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  Everything in Good Season: Growing Farm to Early Care and Education

  Published on February 28, 2023
  This resource of activities and recipes was specifically written for family-based childcare providers caring for smaller groups of children within their homes. It contains experiences and insights from other family-based providers.

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  10 Cents Evaluation Report Mini-Webinar Series

  Published on February 2, 2023
  Learn about how the 10 Cents a Meal program works and its impacts through this webinar series! This series of five mini webinars will highlight key findings from evaluation of the 10 Cents a Meal program for the 2020-2021 year.

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  Building More Equitable SNAP-Ed Collaborations Among Land-grant Universities and State & Community Partners, Part 3

  Published on January 31, 2023
  Learn how land grant universities and state and community partners can operate SNAP-Ed with equity approaches and structures and innovative models of collaboration in this national webinar.

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  Michigan Good Food Charter: Michigan Farm to Institution Network Virtual Meeting

  Published on January 25, 2023
  Learn how the 2022 Michigan Good Food Charter informs and aligns with the efforts of the Michigan Farm to Institution Network.

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  Sparing or expanding? The effects of agricultural yields on farm expansion and deforestation in the tropics

  Published on January 20, 2023
  Does agricultural intensification lead to more deforestation in the tropics? Explore this topic in the February 2023 article featured in Biodiversity and Conservation

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  The Big Picture: Does 10 Cents Work? - 10 Cents a Meal Evaluation Results 2020-2021

  Published on January 11, 2023
  Most grantees agreed that their food service operation was positively impacted through participating in 10 Cents. Explore the big picture of the impact of the program!

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  How Foods Move Through 10 Cents Supply Chain - 10 Cents a Meal Evaluation Results 2020-2021

  Published on January 11, 2023
  How do foods move through the 10 Cents a Meal supply chain? Learn more in these summary briefs of 10 Cents data from the 2020-2021 school year.

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  What Foods are Served through 10 Cents? - 10 Cents a Meal Evaluation Results 2020-2021

  Published on January 11, 2023
  What's on the menu of schools participating in the 10 Cents a Meal program? Learn more in these summary briefs highlighting data from the 2020-2021 school year.

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  Expanded Eligibility, Increased Impacts: 10 Cents a Meal 2020-2021 Evaluation Results

  Published on January 11, 2023
  How have Michigan kids, farmers, and food businesses benefited from 10 Cents a Meal? This series of summaries presents findings from 10 Cents data from the 2020-2021 school year.

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  Recommendations - 10 Cents a Meal Evaluation Results 2020-2021

  Published on January 11, 2023
  Following our evaluation of the 10 Cents data from the 2020-2021 school year, we have 8 main recommendations for the program, both in practice and in evaluation.

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  Who is Engaged in 10 Cents Grants - 10 Cents a Meal Evaluation Results 2020-2021

  Published on January 11, 2023
  During the 2021-2022 school year, more schools participated in 10 Cents a Meal than ever before. Check out their experiences and motivators to serving local food in these summary briefs.

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  10 Cents Grantees Across all Years of the Program

  Published on January 11, 2023
  See this table of 10 Cents a Meal program grantees across all years of the program.

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  A Closer Look at Public School Grantees - 10 Cents a Meal Evaluation Results 2020-2021

  Published on January 11, 2023
  Who participated in the 10 Cents program during the 2020-2021 school year? Explore how key characteristics of public school district grantees may influence their use of the funding and participation.

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  2020–2021 Grantees and Their Counties by MASA Region

  Published on January 11, 2023
  See this table of 2020–2021 10 Cents a Meal Grantees and their Counties by MASA Region.

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  Appendix - 10 Cents a Meal Evaluation Results 2020-2021

  Published on January 11, 2023
  To understand how have Michigan kids, farmers, and food businesses benefited from 10 Cents a Meal in 2020-2021, four evaluation surveys were conducted. See the technical definitions and results here.

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  Overview- 10 Cents a Meal Evaluation Results 2020-2021

  Published on January 11, 2023
  Who was involved and how was the 10 Cents a Meal program evaluated during the 2020-2021 school year? Explore the executive summary and evaluation activities.

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  Un-yielding: Evidence for the agriculture transformation we need

  Published on December 28, 2022
  Through a broad review of the current state of agriculture, desired futures, and the possible pathways to reach them, the authors argue that while trade-offs between some ecosystem services are unavoidable, the same need not be true of the end benefits.