Ensuring Safe and Secure Food in Emmet County
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EmailMSU Extension efforts in ensuring safe and secure food lead to a healthy population, which in turn helps keep health care costs in check and our communities viable.
When you support MSU Extension’s efforts to enhance residents’ access to an adequate supply of safe, affordable food, program participants will focus on food safety measures in the field and at harvest, learn proper food preparation and food preservation techniques, and bring community partners together to strengthen access to healthy food supplies. This leads to a healthy population, which in turn helps keep health care costs in check and our communities viable.
Food Safety Classes
Last summer, 14 youth from the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, participated in two food preservation activities. For their first session they made strawberry freezer jam with berries they picked at a local farm. Later in the summer they picked corn from a local farm and then learned how to blanch it, shuck it, and dispense it into freezer containers to preserve it for later. This summer we have another group of LTBB youth (12 students) who made freezer jam with fresh local strawberries.
