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  • Measuring Racial Equity in the Food System: Established and Suggested Metrics

    Published on May 6, 2019
    This tool contains 86 metrics to help hold ourselves accountable for progress towards a more equitable food system.

  • Good Food Storytelling Night 2019

    Published on May 2, 2019
    Learn what five food system trailblazers are doing to make good food happen in Detroit.

  • Webinar - Land-Grant Institutions and Food Systems: Acknowledging historical disparities and exploring present-day equity initiatives

    Published on April 23, 2019
    What are organizations and administrators working with land-grant institutions doing to address inequities present since the inception of these institutions?

  • Who Was in the Room and How Were They Impacted? The Reach and Value of CRFS Events 2016-2018

    Published on March 21, 2019
    What motivates people to attend CRFS network convenings? How are summits and network meetings impacting participants? This report uses 586 evaluations collected from 2016 to 2018 to begin to answer such questions.

  • 10 Cents a Meal for School Kids and Farms 2018-2019 Legislative Report

    Published on March 21, 2019
    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.

  • Anchor Institutions in Action Webinar

    Published on February 28, 2019
    In this special presentation, the Michigan Farm to Institution Network shares information about hospitals as anchor institutions and some of their strategies for workforce development, place-based investing, and local food purchasing.

  • 10 Cents a Meal Pilot: 2017-2018 Evaluation Results

    Published on February 27, 2019
    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.

  • Farming for Change: Developing a Participatory Curriculum on Agroecology, Nutrition, Climate Change and Social Equity in Malawi and Tanzania

    Published on January 28, 2019
    This article describes the process of developing an innovative curriculum across 2 weeks of training for smallholder farmers with limited formal education.

  • External Resources Recommended by the Racial Equity in the Food System Workgroup

    Published on January 16, 2019
    Check out these resources to grow your knowledge of racial equity in the food system.

  • Hoophouse Production and Marketing Guide

    Published on January 7, 2019
    This guide provides suggestions and parameters for hoophouse planting, crop spacing, realistic yields, common cultivars, and direct market and wholesale pack sizes and pricing.

  • How do institutional food service professionals know that food from their suppliers is safe?

    Published on December 17, 2018
    Results from a brief survey asking institutional food service buyers how they know that their suppliers have followed safe food production and handling practices.

  • Webinar - Building Racial Equity Within Cooperative Extension: Tools, Takeaways, and National Strategies

    Published on December 17, 2018
    A webinar highlighting tools, strategies, and takeaways to help professionals understand racial equity issues within their own organizations and include racial equity into programs they conduct within communities.

  • Michigan MarketMaker

    Published on December 10, 2018
    MarketMaker connects producers, markets, and food lovers.

  • "Put Your Own Mask on Before Helping Someone Else": The Capacity of Food Hubs to Build Equitable Food Access

    Published on December 7, 2018
    Examining 11 Michigan food hubs, this paper asks about the extent to which and under what conditions food hubs can successfully achieve their dual social and economic goals.

  • Beyond Grants: Entrepreneurial Strategies for Funding Beginning Farmer Initiatives

    Published on November 5, 2018
    This report explores self-sustaining entrepreneurial fundraising strategies and activities and offers a creative pathway for evaluating strategies to fund Michigan's beginning farmer initiatives.

  • Local Food for Little Eaters: A Migrant & Seasonal Head Start Guide to Local Food Purchasing

    Published on November 1, 2018
    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.

  • Farm to Migrant and Seasonal Head Start In Action

    Published on November 1, 2018
    This guide profiles Farm to Migrant and Season Head Start programs nationwide who are purchasing and serving local food.

  • Food Systems in 2050: Visions for food systems that sustain people and planet

    Published on October 25, 2018
    This report summarizes the findings of a survey distributed globally to a diverse set of food system actors to share their visions for a better food system.

  • 2018 Michigan Good Food Report Card

    Published on October 22, 2018
    The 2018 report card details efforts from across the state in the past two years to meet the goals of the Michigan Good Food Charter.

  • 2018 Michigan Good Food Report Card Summary

    Published on October 22, 2018
    This summary overview of the 2018 Michigan Good Food Report Card shares progress made toward the six goals of the Michigan Good Food Charter over the past two years.

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