Harvest Aggregation Pilot: Strengthening Rural Supply Chains Lakeshore Food Club (LFC) will use this grant to deploy a tech-enabled, 24/7 exterior refrigeration workflow at its Regional Food Hub in Oceana County. Utilizing secure keypad integration, small-to-midsized producers will be able to deliver harvests on their own schedules, reduce post-harvest cooling times, optimize mid-tier logistics, reduce
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Saginaw Food Club School Produce With this grant, the Saginaw Food Club will pilot a farm-to-school child nutrition program in two school districts in Saginaw County. The project aims to create an institutional market for small-to-midsized Michigan growers in and around Saginaw by connecting them to reliable processing and distribution infrastructure and then placing the Michigan-grown
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MSM Food Entrepreneurship & Local Producer Development Initiative This grant will enable Mill Street Market to launch a rural food entrepreneurship and producer development initiative serving Barry County and surrounding communities. The project will provide food safety training, business development education, commercial kitchen access, and market-readiness support to farmers and food entrepreneurs. The purpose of
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Earthen Heart Farmland Commons The Farmers Land Trust will use this grant to work with land donor Julian Lauzzana, young Black farmer Alita Kelly, West Michigan Young Farmers, Access of West Michigan and others to establish the 501(c)(25) Earthen Heart Farmland Commons in southwestern Michigan. A farmland commons is an innovative model in which local
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U-Pick Gives Back: Strengthening Farms and Communities Through Local Food This grant will support “U-Pick Gives Back,” a pilot project that will enable customers at U-pick farms to round up purchases and contribute directly to ensuring that their food-insecure neighbors have access to locally grown food. Farms will use the funds generated to purchase their
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Urban Hives Project Detroit Hives will use this grant to install and maintain 8 to 10 honeybee hives adjacent to urban farms in the Brightmoor Community of Detroit. Urban growers in Detroit have reported reduced yields due to gaps in pollination caused by shrinking pollinator habitat, land fragmentation, and lack of investment. Detroit Hives will
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Fresh Food Connections: Wholesale Readiness This grant supports a pilot project designed to expand Michigan’s local food infrastructure by helping mid-sized, often BIPOC-owned farms in the greater Flint region transition from direct-to-consumer markets into wholesale channels. By pairing individualized readiness assessments with marketing tools, producer stipends, and facilitated connections to institutional buyers, the project builds
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Rooted in Sovereignty Keep Growing Detroit (KGD) will use this grant to strengthen the social infrastructure that underpins Detroit’s large and diverse urban agriculture network. Through a year of interconnected programming—including seasonal grower gatherings, intergenerational storytelling and cultural workshops, hands-on education, and citywide events—KGD aims to deepen the relationships, shared knowledge, and cultural continuity that
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Building Toward Zero Waste at the Detroit Food Commons DBCFSN will use this grant to support community-centered food waste composting operations at the Detroit People’s Food Co-op (DPFC), a member-owned grocery store cooperative in Detroit’s North End neighborhood. DBCFSN believes that food waste composting is a critical component of a closed loop food economy, “where
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The People’s Mart With this grant, Flint Social Club will install critical infrastructure in “The People’s Mart,” a community-powered food hub that will create markets, storage capacity, and processing infrastructure for small- and mid-sized Michigan growers, food processors, and emerging food entrepreneurs, especially those from BIPOC, immigrant, and low-income communities. The Food Hub also will
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