January 5, 2010 A Good Food Road Show Chefs, agencies, grocers help strapped families “go local” at dinner table
It was chefs, not carny barkers, who excited youngsters at the Northwestern Michigan Fair’s Cooking with Kids session.
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December 21, 2009 Region Sets Table for Healthier Kids
Imagine school food service directors creating a regional cookbook that features seasonal, kid-friendly, healthy, locally grown foods. Or students in the fresh
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December 1, 2009 Kalamazoo: Oh, the Webs They Weave!
The rise of Kalamazoo’s strong Good Food movement is all about people—and about how one good thing often leads to another when those people are
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November 19, 2009 Kalamazoo: Hospital Digs into Local Food
The thing to know about Michael Rowe, food service director for Bronson Methodist Hospital, is that, in just two years, he’s taken the facility from zero
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November 9, 2009 Kalamazoo: Getting Ready for Good Food
Often, big changes start with big ideas from “little people,” even when it’s something as big as the Dot-Com Era, which involved just a few
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September 30, 2009 Decentralize, Diversify, Localize:
Our conversation today starts with a major point of agreement: Our food supply has become very fragile. We are gathered here to tackle the fact that our food
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August 31, 2009 Benton Harbor: Colleges Stock Up, Save on Local Foods
Some things just add up. Moves by two colleges in southwest Lower Michigan to preserve fresh local produce in the summer for winter meals have proved to be
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August 21, 2009 Benton Harbor: Pulling Together Food and Farm Leaders
The group of people that sat down together this spring at Benton Harbor City Hall was small but powerful. Representing farmers, economic developers, local
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August 18, 2009 All Aboard the SW Mich. Good Food Tour!
The community garden on the northeast side of Grand Rapids is serene. Clear air and eager sunlight set the young lettuce leaves and turned-up dirt aglow as
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