by mfc | Feb 2, 2018 | News
Uli Koester, Executive Director I was teaching an MFC class at Barton Open School in 2002 or so when the student teacher in the class approached me with great intent. She loved the lessons I was...
by mfc | Jan 8, 2018 | News
By Carter D’Angelo, fall semester intern from Macalester College I have spent the past few months talking to teachers and administrators about Midwest Food Connection. I am from a small town in Massachusetts and grew up surrounded by small family farms. I have...
by mfc | Dec 12, 2017 | News
Kindergarteners at Lake Harriet showing connections during Emily’s Organic Farming lesson “If you have a connection, you can make two connected circles with your fingers,” said Midwest Food Connection Educator, Emily Houser, to a group of kindergarteners at Thomas...
by mfc | Nov 8, 2017 | News
We had the privilege of bringing four classes of third graders from Brimhall Elementary to two different farms this fall: Common Harvest, a family farm and CSA just east of the St. Croix River, and Big River Farms, a local food hub just west of the St. Croix River...
by mfc | Oct 9, 2017 | News
Last week, I found myself talking about my students to a judge. “My name is Molly Sowash. I teach elementary school students about local food and sustainable farming,” I told her, “Tomorrow I’m going into the second-grade classrooms at EXPO Elementary and...
by mfc | Sep 8, 2017 | News
As we begin another school year, we like to pause to reflect on the school year that has just passed. Here are some notable numbers from 2016-17: Total lessons taught: 772 Lessons in the garden: 59 Middle school lessons: 27 Number of schools: 52 Number of districts: 8...
