Climate Conscious Cuisine: What Our Kids Know

Climate Conscious Cuisine: What Our Kids Know

What happens when you ask kids to think about climate change? They’re instincts are always on. Show a classroom of 2nd graders a picture of pesticide run-off from farms, the resulting algae blooms in our great lakes, the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico —...
Haruko Ruggiero Leaves Midwest Food Connection

Haruko Ruggiero Leaves Midwest Food Connection

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...
An Intern’s Take on MFC

An Intern’s Take on MFC

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...