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Step-by-step toolkit for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs to serve local foods

This guide gives step-by-step instructions and interactive tools that MSHS programs can use to begin purchasing and using more local foods.

 

 

Announcing a new toolkit for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs to serve and use more local foods!

 

The MSU Center for Regional Food Systems is pleased to announce Local Food for Little Eaters: A Migrant & Seasonal Head Start Guide to Local Food Purchasing, as well as profiles of successful farm to Migrant & Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs nationwide.

 

This guide gives step-by-step instructions and interactive tools that MSHS programs can use to begin purchasing and using more local foods.

 

The companion piece, Farm to Migrant and Seasonal Head Start in Action, offers case studies highlighting Migrant & Seasonal Head Start programs nationwide that, through local foods, are reflecting and celebrating the cultures of children and families they engage.

 

Explore and share these tools with your networks!

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

Farm to Migrant and Seasonal Head Start in Action

 

For more information, contact Meagan Shedd mshedd@msu.edu.

 

 

Please help spread the word! Suggested social media posts are below. Click here for images you can include in your posts.

 

Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs nationwide are using local foods to reflect and celebrate the cultures of children and families they engage. Check out these step-by-step instructions, interactive tools, and case studies! foodsystems.msu.edu/mshs @MSUCRFS

 

For Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs interested in using local and cultural foods, check out these step-by-step instructions, tools, and examples! foodsystems.msu.edu/mshs @MSUCRFS

 

 

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Andrea Weiss

Communications Director

Center for Regional Food Systems | Michigan State University

480 Wilson Road, Room 309 | Natural Resources Building | East Lansing, MI 48824

(517) 432-0283

 

twitter.com/MSUCRFS  

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