Taste the Local Difference

Taste the Local Difference
builds new markets for northwest
Lower Michigan’s farmers, connecting
them to shoppers, grocers, restaurants,
and other food businesses.

Contact: Janice Benson
Taste the Local Difference Project Director
janice@mlui.org

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Formerly Local Food Exchange: Sell, buy, or share food, farmland, services, and saved seeds; list job opportunities.

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New Local Food Web Site Donating to MLUI

A new northwest Lower Michigan food Web site is donating 1 percent of its sales to the Michigan Land Use Institute to demonstrate its commitment to environmental causes and bettering the planet...more

Mar 16, 2012
Snyder Samples Traverse' Local Food Efforts
When Governor Snyder visited a Traverse City school recently, he heard about “10 Cents a Meal for School Kids and Farms,” a new local food project. ...more

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Mar 12, 2012
Know Your Farmer
The Michigan Land Use Institute is launching a new Know Your Farmer marketing tool as a companion to the successful Taste the Local Difference Food and Farm Guide that is a directory to more than 200 of the region’s farms and their products. ...more

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Calendar of Events

5.10 Garlic Mustard Hunt
5.11-5.13 Mesick Mushroom Fesitval
5.13 Mama Mia! Trattoria Stella
5.13 Mother's Day Morel and Leek Walk
5.15 Strategies for Productive Gardening
5.16 & 5.18: High Tunnel Work-bee at Central Lake School
5.19-5.20 Old Mission Blossom Days
5.19-5.20 Empire Asparagus Festival
5.26 Michigan Beer and Brat Festival
6/23 2012 Michigan Good Food Summit

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Find farms selling to schools for meals, snacks, and fundraisers; schools buying from them; and school garden, field trip, and curriculum help.

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