Thank you to our Funders, Partners, Sponsors and Donors!

MIFFS is grateful to the many people who generously donate their time and talents to support our programs and activities. MIFFS could not achieve our mission without your support. Thank you! Support MIFFS with a donation...

MIFFS Funders and Partners
Our funders and partners are the agencies and foundations that provide financial support and/or expertise to achieve
mutually beneficial goals. Our funders and partners for 2010 so far are:

• USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA)
• USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
• USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program
• USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
• USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Michigan State University (MSU) Extension
• MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies, MSU
• MSU Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources

MIFFS Activities Sponsors
Our activities sponsors are the agencies, companies and foundations that provide financial support and/or expertise to specific workshops and events. Our activities sponsors since November 2009 are:

• USDA Rural Development
• MSU Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Michigan Department of Agriculture
• Wallace Center at Winrock International
• C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at MSU
• GreenStone Farm Credit Services
• Michigan State Horticultural Society
• Michigan Vegetable Council
• Eastern Market Corporation
• Originz, LLC
• Meijer
• Superior Sales
• Mike Pirrone Produce
• Michigan Apple Committee
• Whole Foods Market
• Goodness Greenness
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Potawatomi RC&D
• Organic Valley Family of Farms
• Sustainable Agriculture Research Education (SARE)
• Farm Research Cooperative
• Sauk Trails RC&D
• Michigan Association of RC&D Councils
• Michigan SARE Professional Development Program
• Calhoun Conservation District
• USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) - Michigan Office
• Southwest Michigan Research and Extension Center
• The Starting Block, Inc.

MIFFS Donors
Since February 2009, the following donors have supported Michigan Food & Farming Systems. We greatly appreciate their
support and invite you to join them by making a tax-deductible donation to MIFFS. To learn more, please contact MIFFS at (517) 432-0712. Donate now...

• Jon & Elaine Bartholic, Laingsburg
• Chad & Emily Beutel, Kalamazoo
• Bill Bierman, Riga
• George & Ann Bird, Holt
• Morse & Arma Brown, Livonia
• Pamela Burke, Remus
• Joe Colyn, Battle Creek
• Keith & Laska Creagh, Williamston
• James Czarkowski, East Leroy
• Larry Dyer, Petoskey
• Rhonda Fackert, Brighton
• Kathy Fedder, Lansing
• Jason Fligger, Detroit
• Nancy Guthrie, Sunshine Prairie Farms, Delton
• Thomas Kalchik, Grand Ledge
• Mike Kovacic, Dewitt
• John Malcomnson, Davison
• Ivan Morely, Standish
• Terri Novak, Flushing
• Oryana Food Cooperative
• Bob and Susan Pigg, Okemos
• Kate Redman, Lansing
• Celeste Sturdevant Reed, Williamston
• Taylor Reid, Lansing
• Scott Reynolds, Vermontville
• Susan Smalley, East Lansing
• Ron Steiner, Hart
• Howard & Mary Jo Straub, St. Johns
• Michael & Julia Studier, Tower Hill Farm in Sodus
• Wendy Wieland, Charlevoix