About the Food and Farming Network
Notes from the Second Annual Farm Route to Prosperity Summit, April 9, 2010.
Report on the April 9 Summit: Food, Farm Leaders Update Plan for Doubling Local Ag
The Northwest Michigan Food and Farming Network is a forum and opportunity for the region’s many food and farming interests to link and advance their work.
The Network came about after leading business and community organizations joined together to plan the Feb. 24, 2009, Farm Route to Prosperity summit. The reason for the summit was to help determine how this region’s food and farm interests should follow up on the six-county Grand Vision process, a 50-year planning process that calls for strong farms, healthy people, and abundant, fruitful farmland.
Farm Route to Prosperity Summit
Each year the Network sponsors a Summit, bringing 100 or more people together from a broad cross-section of food system interests together. This year's Summit is scheduled for February 17, 2012 at the Hagerty Center. Click here for more details.
The Food and Farming Network
The Northwest Michigan Food & Farming Network is not a new organization but rather a structure through which many organizations and individuals can make progress together.
The Network is organized around working groups that spent time at the Summit thinking about priority strategies for achieving the regional goal and related objectives. These working groups form a regional council that will guide the Network and decide how to measure and monitor progress.
Working group chairs are always interested in people who might want to participate actively.
Please join us in person or online!
Planning Partners – Farm Route to Prosperity summit, February 4, 2011
Black Star Farms
Northwestern Michigan College
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy
James Bardenhagen Farm
Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy
James Bardenhagen Farm
The May Farm
Leelanau Conservancy
Michigan Land Use Institute
Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center
Michigan State University Extension
Leelanau Conservancy
Michigan Land Use Institute
Michigan Small Business and Technology Development Center
Michigan State University Extension
Michigan State University
ISLAND
Neahtawanta Center
Northwest Michigan Council of Governments
USDA-Rural Development
Neahtawanta Center
Northwest Michigan Council of Governments
USDA-Rural Development
Common Sense Energy
Plus...many individuals
2011 Summit Meeting Notes