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In Local Fruits, Vegetables, A New Prosperity Beckons

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Keith Schneider
20 July 2005 - 12:00pm

Michigan Food Council aims to connect food, people, and jobs.

The State of Michigan, the nation's eighth largest, recently took a significant step toward reconnecting the state’s great variety of farm products — second only to California’s — with its people. On June 7, 2005, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm established the Michigan Food Policy Council by executive order and charged its 27 members with pursuing new opportunities to grow jobs, save farmland, and improve public health by increasing everyone’s ability to enjoy the taste and nutrition of foods produced close to home.

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Source: Michigan Land Use Institute, July 20, 2005
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