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Now that the 2020 Summit is complete, let us know about your experience!!
Tuesday November 17, 2020 | 1:00-2:30 PM
Tuesday November 17, 2020 | 1:00-2:30 PM
In this session we dig deeper into important topics related to the Michigan Good Food Charter and Summit! Participants heard a short presentation from each facilitator then joined a breakout group to further discuss the topic of their choice.
Breakout Discussion Topics Include:
How To Support Farmers in Your Community
How Food and Farm Businesses are Making it work during COVID-19
Deconstructing White Supremacy in the Food System
Read more about each breakout discussion below!
Read more about each breakout discussion below!
Brainstorming Session: How to Support Farmers in your Community
Brainstorming Session: How to Support Farmers in your Community
Katie Brandt, MSU Student Organic Farm & Groundswell Community Farm
Naim Edwards, MSU Extension MSU-Detroit Partnership for Food, Learning, and Innovation
Abbey Palmer, MSU Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center
James DeDecker, MSU Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center
Let's address the challenges facing beginning farmers! Add your voice to the collective wisdom of aspiring and beginning farmers, food system groups, educators and community members to brainstorm solutions for beginning farmers and to create an action plan for your region to better support beginning farmers. In your first breakout session, your group will focus on successful and/or new solutions to 1 challenge of your choice, such as land access, startup funding, financial/business skills, production skills, access to markets, farmer stress or profitability challenges. Your group will take notes in a shared document and share out your best ideas with the full group in 2 minutes or less. In a second breakout session, you'll collaborate with others from your region to create action steps and (possibly) make personal commitments to assist local beginning farmers. Lastly, a few regions will share drafts of their plans. All are welcome. Please join us!
Brainstorming Notes
Brainstorming Notes
Learn and Explore Ways Food & Farm Businesses Are Making It Work During the COVID-19 Reset
Learn and Explore Ways Food & Farm Businesses Are Making It Work During the COVID-19 Reset
Mary Donnell, Capital Impact Partners & Michigan Good Food Fund
Chris Wendel, Northern Initiatives & Michigan Good Food Fund
Jean Chorazyczewski, Fair Food Network & Michigan Good Food Fund
Many food and farm enterprises pivoted during the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID). Growers began selling directly to consumers, restaurants expanded take-out options, and product makers found new sales outlets.
In this facilitated conversation with the Michigan Good Food Fund (MGFF) team, we will share what we have seen and how we helped food businesses with technical and financial assistance during COVID. There is much more to do, so we will dive into a discussion to hear from you about what more is needed for food and farm businesses to reset, survive, and thrive.
Since 2015, MGFF provided $12.3 million in financing and technical support to 280+ MI food and farm businesses producing healthy, affordable, equitable, local, and sustainable food. MGFF partners are Capital Impact Partners, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems, Fair Food Network, Northern Initiatives, Detroit Development Fund, Michigan Women Forward, Grand Rapids Opportunities for Women, and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
Deconstructing White Supremacy in the Food System
Deconstructing White Supremacy in the Food System
Angela Hojnacki, Fair Food Network
Antonio Cosme, National Wildlife Federation
The food system in the United States is rooted in race-based oppression and reinforced by our culture of white supremacy and capitalism that devalues working people. Where is white supremacy (or a white inferiority complex) hiding within your organization and within yourself? We all have a role in processing these deep-rooted issues, and it's imperative that we explore them individually and collectively. Participants will leave with a broad overview of these topics and plenty to reflect on, within themselves and their organizations.
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