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Thursday, March 14, 2024

Re: Investment proposal

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Regards
Howard Ethan
Financial Advisor

Monday, March 11, 2024

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Monday, March 4, 2024

Join Us Tomorrow for the Innovation Hub Roundtable!

Greetings,

Are you interested in funding farm to school work in your region? Join us tomorrow at 3:00 pm for our second Regional Roundtable event for the Lake Michigan School Food Systems Innovation Hub! This virtual event will help connect applicants regionally and discuss our visions for farm to school projects. Roundtables are open to anyone interested in the Innovation Hub awards, including school personnel, farmers or food suppliers, staff from community organizations, and more. 

We will start the event with a brief overview of the Innovation Hub grants with time for Q&A. Afterwards, we will divide participants into interactive breakout groups based on their Michigan region of interest: Upper Peninsula, Northwest, West Central, Southwest, East Central, Southeast, and Central. Please note, we are postponing the Northeast breakout group at this time.

Register at: bit.ly/498RLZX
March 5th at 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm EST 

We hope to see you there!

Best,
Megan

Megan McManus 

(she/her/hers)

Farm to Institution Specialist

MSU Center for Regional Food Systems

480 Wilson Road – Natural Resources Building

East Lansing, MI 48824

e: mcmanu60@msu.edu

w: https://www.canr.msu.edu/foodsystems/​

Monday, February 26, 2024

Join MDE's Farm to Program Directory!

Are you interested in selling Michigan grown produce to schools, childcare centers, and community service agencies that serve meals to children? Complete the survey linked here to be listed in MDE’s Farm to Program Directory! https://msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dh8ryyTcOyO9VGu

 

Ten Cents a Meal for Michigan’s Kids and Farms is a program that incentivizes local purchasing in Child Nutrition Programs by offering matching grants to pay for Michigan grown minimally processed fruit, vegetable, and dry bean purchases. Ten Cents a Meal grantees and other Child Nutrition Program customers will use MDE’s directory to identify food suppliers that can sell them Michigan grown produce for their programs. The directory is open to farmers, food hubs, and food aggregators, as well as any other food business that can provide the name and county of the farm(s) where their product was grown. We are currently collecting information from interested suppliers and are planning to launch the directory in Fall of 2024. We hope you will join us to help serve the freshest, most local food to kids in Michigan!

 

If you have any questions, please reach out to us at MDE-FarmToProgram@michigan.gov.

 

Sincerely,

Cheyenne Liberti

she/her

 

Farm to Program Consultant

Office of Nutrition Services

Michigan Department of Education

 

LibertiC@michigan.gov

(517) 284-0765

 

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Join us for the Innovation Hub Regional Roundtables

Greetings,

I'm passing along info about our upcoming Regional Roundtables for the Lake Michigan School Food Systems Innovation Hub! We will be hosting two virtual roundtable discussions to help connect applicants regionally and discuss our visions for farm to school projects. Roundtables are open to anyone interested in the Innovation Hub awards, including school personnel, farmers or food suppliers, staff from community organizations, and more. 

We will start the event with a brief overview of the Innovation Hub grants and Q&A time from the audience. Afterwards, we will be dividing participants into interactive breakout groups based on their Michigan region of interest: Upper Peninsula, Northwest, West Central, Southwest, Northeast, East Central, Southeast, and Central.

We have two events currently scheduled and registration is now live:

We hope to see you there!

Best,
Megan

Megan McManus 

(she/her/hers)

Farm to Institution Specialist

MSU Center for Regional Food Systems

480 Wilson Road – Natural Resources Building

East Lansing, MI 48824

e: mcmanu60@msu.edu

w: https://www.canr.msu.edu/foodsystems/​

Monday, February 19, 2024

Growing Hope Seeks Seasonal Interns

Good morning,

Growing Hope seeks paid and unpaid interns for the 2024 growing and market season to support our Home Vegetable Garden Program, Urban Farm, and Farmers Market. These educational opportunities are a great way to learn and make an impact on our local food system. 

Please share these within your networks and with anyone who might be interested in learning more. 

Best,

Julius

--
Julius Buzzard
Executive Director
(Pronouns: he/him/his)

734.786.8401 Office
734.389.5045 Cell

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Growing Hope fosters an equitable and sustainable local food system where all people are empowered to grow, sell, buy, prepare and eat nourishing food. 



MIFARMTOSCHOOL is a listserv that links farm-to-school stakeholders and practitioners in Michigan, from school food service directors and school administrators to growers and distributors. Content posted to MIFARMTOSCHOOL does not necessarily reflect the views of Michigan State University or the Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems.

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Apply for Funds Through the Innovation Hub!

Applications are now open for the Lake Michigan School Food System Innovation Hub!
MSU Center for Regional Food Systems is a part of the Lake Michigan School Food System Innovation Hub, which supports people working to improve meals in schools across Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana — especially in areas that don’t have equitable access to resources. 

Our USDA-funded grant-making initiative offers funding, training and other assistance to partnerships that include farmers, food producers, suppliers, distributors, schools and organizations.  

Grants are available from $10,000 to $100,000 per year. Applications are open until April 30, 2024. 

Do you know a way to bring local, nutritious and culturally relevant food to more schools across our region? Learn more at InnovateSchoolFood.org
Upcoming Events
Tomorrow! Lake Michigan School Food System Launch Webinar: Understanding Our Grants and How We Can Help

  • The upcoming launch webinar is on Wednesday, February 14 at 2:00 p.m. EST (English) and 3:00 p.m. EST (Spanish). This webinar will include an overview of the Innovation Hub's request for applications, including who’s eligible, and how applications will be scored. We will also review all the support we have available to help you apply. Lastly, a brief overview on how to inclusively engage and support priority communities will be covered.


New! Collaboration Across Michigan for the Innovation Hub: Regional Roundtables 

  • The MSU Center for Regional Food Systems will be hosting two virtual roundtable discussions to help connect Innovation Hub applicants in their regions to share and discuss their visions and project ideas with one other. Roundtables are open to anyone interested in the Innovation Hub awards, including school personnel, farmers or food suppliers, staff from community organizations, and more. We will be dividing participants into interactive breakout groups based on their Michigan region of interest: Upper Peninsula, Northwest, West Central, Southwest, Northeast, East Central, Southeast, and Central.

  • Events will be held on: 
  • February 22nd at 11:30 am – 12:45 pm EST 
  • Register here
  • March 5th at 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm EST 
  • Register here
About Michigan Farm to School

Farm to School centers around efforts to serve local foods in school and early care and education settings. We share ideas, tools and resources to support a range of efforts, from school garden programming to farmer visits and field trips.

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