March 22, 2024

Meet the Farmers’ Truck: A Mobile Market

The Farmers’ Truck innovative infrastructure creates opportunities for food access.

Ypsilanti Farmers Market Booth
August 24, 2022

Fresh Food Connections : Using Food Assistance Benefits Online

Fresh Food Connections seeks to increase fresh food access by connecting SNAP eligible communities to farms and farmers markets offering online ordering.

May 11, 2022

Farms, Families and Fresh Grown Food

Michigan Fitness Foundation reduces the gap between local farmers and consumers through the Michigan Farm to Family: CSA (MF2FCSA) program.

April 6, 2022

Celebrating our Community Partnerships

In addition to working with individual food businesses, we partner with organizations who are fostering a stronger, more equitable local food system.

April 5, 2021

Join Your Local Food Co-op Effort

“Co-ops are for the people, inspired by the people, built and driven by the people,” says Dr. Akua Woolbright, Board President of the Detroit People’s Food Co-op, a…

March 10, 2021

9 Michigan Registered Dietitian Nutritionists You Should Know

March 10th is National Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) Day!  RDNs are nutrition experts with extensive science backgrounds and training that support individuals and communities in becoming their healthiest…

March 10, 2021

Ojibwe Chef Reclaims “Food as Medicine” through Indigenized, Accessible Food

Chef Cam Stott is using traditional Native foods to remind people that food is medicine and that Native people are still here, through his new project Thirteen Moons…

August 27, 2020

Take Action with Food Gatherers this Hunger Action Month

September is Hunger Action Month, a time when people all over America stand together to fight hunger in their communities. 

October 5, 2016

Washtenaw County’s First Meet-the-Buyers Event: The next step in strengthening our local food economy

Did you know that Washtenaw County has a food policy council? You may be asking yourself, what is food policy and why is it important to our community?…