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Recent newsletter articles and blog posts about Midwest Food Connection

• The Wedge Community Co-op newsletter featured an article written by Virginia Pearson, "Midwest Food Connection Challenges Kids to Eat Locally Grown Foods." (Read the article as a PDF.)
• Micaela Preston, the blogger behind, Mindful Momma: Adventures in Living a Green and Healthy Life and mom to Drew, one of Midwest Food Connection's students, posted a nice article on how we teach kids to "eat close to the planet." Here is a PDF of the blog post.
• The Seward Coop published an article by Midwest Food Connection, "Food for Thought" (PDF), in their newsletter, Sprout!
• The Wedge Coop published a retrospective article about Midwest Food Connection, "Natural Food Education in a Changing World: Elementary Program Nears 15-Year Mark" written by our Executive Director, Uli Koester.
• Minnesota Food Connection is featured in the article, “Kids in the Kitchen” in Sprout!, the newsletter of Seward Cooperative Grocery and Deli.
• Think you’re smarter than a fifth grader? Take the Midwest Food Connection Quiz on healthy eating in Valley Natural Food’s newsletter and find out.
• Learn how Midwest Food Connection is helping Saint Paul students make healthier food choices in Mississippi Market’s newsletter.
• Read about Midwest Food Connection’s educational farm field trips for kids in the article, “Fall Fun with Food: In the Classroom and on the Farm” from Mississippi Market’s newsletter.
• The Wedge featured Midwest Food Connection’s articles, “Dumbing Down Food Choices – Kids Deserve Better” and "Connecting Kids to the Land" in their newsletters.

Podcasts

• Uli Koester of Midwest Food Connection was interviewed by Brian DeVore of the Land Stewardship Project (podcast number 44). LSP's Ear to the Ground is an audio magazine produced by the Land Stewardship Project, a private, nonprofit membership-based organization that is working to foster an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities. Listen to Ear to the Ground's Podcast No. 44.

Our media kit

Helpful info for planning articles, newsletters or upcoming events.

Midwest Food Connection Press Kit (PDF)

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