Working Group Chairs

Northwest Michigan Food and Farming Network Chairs and Co-chairs

• Farmland -- Chairs: Ellen Fred, Attorney and ________
• Finance/Funding -- Chris Wendel, MI Small Business & Tech. Development Corp. and ________
• Health/Youth -- Diane Conners, Michigan Land Use Institute
• Education/Training -- Chairs: Rob Sirrine, MSUE and Susan Cocciarelli, NWMCOG
• Policy -- Chairs (tentative): Don Coe, Black Star Farms, Patty Cantrell, Regional Food Solutions

The following three working groups are temporarily combined into a "Scaling Up" working group that will combine efforts within these functions. 

• Infrastructure -- 
• Producers -- 
• Buyers -- 

Scaling Up -- Chairs: Jim Bardenhagen, James Bardenhagen Farm, Rob Sirrine, MSUE, Jim Sluyter, MLUI, and _______