April 28, 2008 Pricey Lawsuits Hound Local Governments’ Growth Decisions So far, Bear Creek owes $388K in legal costs for resisting sprawl A Michigan lawmaker and a state agriculture agency are each taking steps to make it easier for schools to serve more locally grown fresh foods to their students. Representative Lee Gonzalez is .
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April 21, 2008 Farm-to-School Success Stirring State Action
A Michigan lawmaker and a state agriculture agency are each taking steps to make it easier for schools to serve more locally grown fresh foods to their students. Representative Lee Gonzales is . ...more
March 16, 2008 State Law Slows Farm-to-School Progress
Here we were, 330 of the region’s professionals in school education, nutrition, and health, working to nudge fresh, wholesome local food into the center
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March 7, 2008 Raising a New Kind of ‘Eater’
I had breakfast with Marty Heller and Michelle Ferrarese at their farm on the kind of February morning that makes most people want to go back to bed. But they
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February 7, 2008 Prosperous Farms, Well-Fed Kids:
When Frankfort-Elbert high schoolers staged a “strike” over the quality of their cafeteria food two years ago, their timing was perfect: School
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August 30, 2007 New Leelanau Extension Director Has ‘Perfect Job’
Years of doctoral study convinced Rob Sirrine that, when it comes to educating growers, it’s about a lot more than telling them how much nitrogen
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June 14, 2007 Leelanau Group Eyes Different Way to Preserve Farms
Most Sunday afternoons a small group of local people meet in a Leelanau County living room to discuss a very big idea: making it easier for new farmers and
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June 4, 2007 Up North, It’s Local Food Time
After PBS food show host Eric Villegas visited a school and a restaurant in northwest Michigan that serve locally grown food, he declared the area comparable
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May 18, 2007 Did SOP Move Lawmakers?
One of the busiest people at the Michigan Land Use Institute’s recent Seeds of Prosperity conference was veteran lobbyist Jean Doss.
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