How Produce Prescriptions are promoting healthy behaviors across Michigan
More than 20 Produce Prescription Programs operating across the state are helping people improve their diets by giving them access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Detroit food justice advocate works to deliver healthy, equitable produce during COVID-19
As a college student, Deeply Rooted Produce founder Dazmonique Carr experienced food insecurity. Now her company is working to create more equitable access to affordable, high-quality produce for Detroiters at every income level.
Detour Detroit and Planet Detroit: A guide to eating, finding and growing local food in Detroit
Through this project, a collaborative effort between Detour Detroit and Planet Detroit, we talked to dozens of local experts who know food, from seed to table. The Hunger Files guide is a bite-sized taste of their wisdom about growing, preserving, and finding local food in Detroit, with tips for things you can do, starting today.
Tostada Magazine: How Keep Growing Detroit Is making food accessible during a pandemic
Since the onset of COVID-19, grocery stores have been hit with shortages, limited hours, and social distancing restrictions making food shopping an anxiety-inducing experience, to say the least. At the same time, thousands of families have found themselves suddenly jobless, without income, and faced with fewer options to feed their households.
Community garden helps dreams grow in Detroit’s east side, despite COVID-19
It's taken many hands to grow the community garden space in Yorkshire Woods, but the team behind the outdoors space know how important it is, especially during COVID-19, and show no signs of slowing: “In the last five years what we have done is given the community a place to be peaceful."
Planet Detroit and Detour Detroit: How chefs reinvented their businesses to survive the pandemic
From neighborhood markets to community kitchens, Detroit’s local food business owners are figuring out how to survive while stepping up for their workers as COVID-19 laid bare the restaurant industry’s inequities.
Planet Detroit and Detour Detroit: How Black farmers began fixing city’s land ownership problem
Providing Black farmers with land security was one of the reasons Jerry Hebron from Oakland Avenue Urban Farm, Tepfirah Rushdan from Keep Growing Detroit, and representatives from the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) D-Town Farm launched the GoFundMe campaign.
Partner Partner Content CrimFit Nutrition Program brings exercise and nutrition education to thousands of Flint kids at home
As Flint kids begin online-only schooling, opportunities for physical exercise and nutrition education will be scarce. But a team of Crim Fitness Foundation staffers is working to address that by bringing the Crim’s Nutrition Program (CrimFit) out of the classroom and into families' homes.
Partner Partner Content Saginaw Farmers Market Food Navigator leads families to healthier lifestyles
Farmers Market Food Navigators help market patrons build healthy eating habits, make the most of SNAP benefits, and build relationships with their farmers.
Michigan’s local food economy rises to meet COVID-19’s challenges
Small Michigan farms have already adapted rapidly to address some of the challenges the pandemic has presented, and local food advocates see many opportunities ahead to continue strengthening local food systems.
