Center for Regional Food Systems

Videos

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  Good Food Storytelling Night 2019

  Published on May 2, 2019
  Learn what five food system trailblazers are doing to make good food happen in Detroit.

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  Taking Root: Hoophouses for Health + MI Farm to School Video Series

  Published on August 30, 2018
  This series of five short videos shows how the innovative combination of Hoophouses for Health and MI Farm to School works from every angle.

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  Michigan Farm to School: Kids in the Kitchen

  Published on July 2, 2018
  Chef Sean Gartland prepares three healthy recipes that include locally grown products. Each video shows how easy it is to prepare local, healthy, and affordable foods with children of different ages in the kitchen.

• Curtis Ogden: Building Capacity Through Networks

  Published on January 22, 2018
  Video recording of Curtis Ogden, speaking at November 29, 2017 convening of statewide leaders of food and health associations and local food councils on the importance of networks.

• Local Foods Impact Conference: Best Practices in Evaluation Science

  Published on May 2, 2017
  This video is from a workshop at the 2017 Local Foods Impact Conference Plenary Session on Best Practices in Evaluation Science.

• The Good Food Movement in the Upper Peninsula: A Snapshot

  Published on November 22, 2016
  A video snapshot of Good Food efforts in the Upper Peninsula, first shown at the 2016 Michigan Good Food Summit.

• The Good Food Movement in Kalamazoo: A Snapshot

  Published on November 4, 2016
  A video snapshot of Good Food efforts in Kalamazoo, first shown at the 2016 Michigan Good Food Summit.

• The Good Food Movement in Flint: A Snapshot

  Published on November 4, 2016
  A video snapshot of Good Food efforts in Flint, first shown at the 2016 Michigan Good Food Summit.

• Michigan Farm to School: Calumet Center and Sharkar Farms

  Published on October 6, 2016
  The Calumet Center, a juvenile center in Highland Park, Michigan, is partnering with Sharkar Farms through Hoophouses for Health.

• A Cultivate Michigan Local Food Distribution Tour

  Published on January 18, 2016
  Offered in conjunction with the Michigan Green Healthcare Conference, this Cultivate Michigan tour highlights a local food distribution facility. Cherry Capital Foods provides only Michigan foods to Michigan customers, including institutions.

• Blueberries Tour 2014: A Cultivate Michigan Video

  Published on December 10, 2015
  In this Cultivate Michigan tour Barbara Norman’s Farm and True Blue Farms Processing Plant describe how their farms operate with a special kind of local connection that Cultivate Michigan strives to make more common.

• Uganda: from the Garden to the School

  Published on October 28, 2015
  Bigodi Secondary School and the Bigodi community in Western Uganda has found a sustainable way to work together to form a community-based food system, incorporating agricultural education as well.

• Small-Scale Urban Food Trade in Lilongwe

  Published on October 27, 2015
  In this video, researchers follow legume trader, Ruth Ndingo, as they explore the traditional food provisioning and exchange environment in Lilongwe, Malawi.

• Apple Tour 2014: A Cultivate Michigan Video

  Published on February 11, 2015
  This Cultivate Michigan tour takes place at Blake's Orchard and Cider Mill. Blake Farms is a family owned and operated orchard & cider mill rooted in strong family traditions and a commitment to excellence.

• Detroit Public Schools Garden to Cafeteria Program Video

  Published on January 5, 2015
  This video features Drew Farms, a school for cognitively impaired adults. It is one in a series highlighting Farm to School best practices and innovations in Michigan, for use by Farm to School practitioners and community stakeholders.

• Meet Up and Eat Up with the Detroit Lions Video

  Published on January 5, 2015
  Students from Detroit Public Schools shop at Detroit Eastern Market with the Detroit Lions. This Meet Up and Eat Up event was co-hosted by Fair Food Network and the United Way of Southeast Michigan.

• Tomatoes Tour 2014: A Cultivate Michigan Video

  Published on December 10, 2014
  Farmers on the Move, the only cooperative of Hispanic farmers in Michigan that is on a mission to provide locally grown, sustainable produce, hosted a Cultivate Michigan Tomato tour.

• Growing and Buying Good Food Keynote - 2014 Michigan Good Food Summit

  Published on November 24, 2014
  Betti Wiggins, Executive Director of DPS Office of School Nutrition and Barbara Norman, owner/operator of Barbara's Blueberry Batch discuss challenges and opportunities within Michigan's food system.

• The Vision and Goals of the 2010 Michigan Good Food Charter

  Published on November 14, 2014
  These videos were created for the 2014 Michigan Good Food Summit to share progress on the six original Charter goals and highlight stories from around Michigan.

• Managing Soil Health From an Organic Farmer's Perspective

  Published on August 21, 2014
  The following links are videos about soil management from the perspective of an organic grain farmer in New York.