Groundwork Center offers innovative solutions for healthier, more resilient, and economically secure communities.

Joined August 2009
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10 years of lessons from the Kalamazoo River oil spill prove we must shut down Line 5 in Mackinac Straits. NWF's Beth Wallace and Larry Bell, Bell's Brewery, on Speaking of Resilience podcast. groundworkcenter.org/podcast
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We kick off Groundwork's 25th year with April 9 potluck at the Historic Barns, Grand Traverse Commons! Stay tuned for details, but please know you are invited, and we would love to celebrate our big day with you! Mark your calendar! #traversecity #leelanau #benzie
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Nutritional psychologist April Hackert packs a lot into this 6-min vid re how food and stress inter-relate. From our Farms, Food & Health Conference. #brainfood #nutritionalpsychology #aprilhackert #localfood #culinarymedicine bit.ly/39M9ZB8

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UP Energy Task Force gets update fm Public Sector Consultants in St. Ignace today re upcoming report on propane delivery alternatives if Line 5 disrupted. Groundwork helping organize support across UP for clean energy in Task Force recommendations #upperpeninsula #cleanenergy
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"I care for food. I give it to kids ... so they know they are cared for." — Nathan Bates, chef at Boyne Falls Public School when honored in the 2020 Boyne Area Chamber of Commerce Awards Gala. #farmtoschool, #localfood facebook.com/BrianKoz/videos…

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Let's get Michigan's innovative and effective local-food school lunch program reinstated! Our kids deserve hope for a healthy life. #farmtoschool #farm2school #localfood #brainfood #govwhitmer record-eagle.com/news/busine…
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National politics are in a swirl, but local solutions are making our nation better every single day. Ignite your optimism w this inspiring video, and please join in! Let's move move forward with solutions that unify. #localfood #cleanenergy #newmobility vimeo.com/365561401
It's not easy convincing schools to bring healthy foods into cafeterias and vending machines. Marshall Collins, School Health Specialist with the Traverse Bay Area Intermediate School District, shares insight from his journey. #farmtoschool #farm2school youtube.com/watch?v=HiNAPQv1…
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Great editorial by @RecordEagle calling for shutdown of Line 5 based on yet another incident—recent— that reveals the vulnerability of the pipeline and threat of oil spill within the powerful currents of the Mackinac Straits. #greatlakes #waterislife record-eagle.com/editorial-m…
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Happy New Year! As the sun rises on our 25th year, we offer you this wish. May optimism fill your sails. May equality be your horizon. May wisdom and understanding be your compass. Let's create local solutions that allow environment, economy and human health to all rise together!
When you support Groundwork (groundworkcenter.org/donate), you support our TC Mobility Lab, helping develop better ways to reduce traffic and keep our towns livable, walkable and bike-able! Please give during our Solutions That Unify annual campaign. #traversecity #nomi #newmobility
Our Petoskey local food policy specialist, Jen Schaap, has been working with the Health Dept of NW Michigan to take the farm to school movement to the next level. Stay tuned for how you can steal ideas and build the farm to school movement in your school! #farmtoschool #localfood
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At Groundwork, we see trains as important part of future, but it's fun to reflect on the role they played in the past. This @RecordEagle story offers some great historical perspective to hold onto! #trains #traversecity #petoskey #newmobility #greatlakes record-eagle.com/news/lifest…
Please support Groundwork (groundworkcenter.org/donate), and further the emerging field of culinary medicine—spread healing benefits of nutrient-dense, locally grown food! Let food be thy medicine is an old saying more important than ever. #localfood #culinarymedicine #traversecity
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We’re hiring! Groundwork Center Seeks Bookkeeper If someone you know is an experienced bookkeeper wanting to work at an energized, widely respected nonprofit that’s building innovative, community-based programs, have them apply! #traversecity #nonprofit groundworkcenter.org/about/j…

When you give to Groundwork (groundworkcenter.org/donate), you bring fresh and healthy food to schools through Farm to School programs. Help solve diet-related child disease like diabetes & obesity and create lifelong healthy habits. #farmtoschool #localfood #traversecity #petoskey
With year-end giving to Groundwork (groundworkcenter.org/donate), you spread farm to school programs that fight diet-caused child diseases like obesity & diabetes and give our kids long, healthy lives—they deserve that! (Also supports local farms!) #localfood #farmtoschool #Michigan