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 this year are:

• USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA)
• USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
• USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA)
• USDA Farmers Market Promotion Program
• USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA)
• Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
• USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) - Specialty Crop Block Grant through MDARD
• USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) - Specialty
  Crop Block Grant through MDARD
• 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
• Fair Food Network
• MSU Kellogg Biological Station
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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 this year so far are:

• USDA Rural Development
• MSU Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
• C.S. Mott Chair of Sustainable Agriculture at MSU
• C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at MSU
• GreenStone Farm Credit Services
• Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable and Farm Market Expo
• Eastern Market Corporation
• Originz, LLC
• Meijer
• W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• Potawatomi RC&D
• Organic Valley Family of Farms
• Sustainable Agriculture Research Education (SARE)
• Farm Research Cooperative
• Michigan Association of RC&D Councils
• Sauk Trails RC&D
• Fraleigh Law Firm, PLLC
• Calhoun Conservation District
• USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) - Michigan Office
• Lansing Community College
• Food Bank Council of Michigan
• Auto-Owners Insurance
• Union of Concerned Scientists
• Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council
• Michigan Soybean Checkoff Program
• MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, MSU Extension and AgBioResearch
• Neogen Corporation
• Earthscape Farms
• Katherine Fedder
• Sysco-Grand Rapids
• Keith and Laska Creagh, Williamston
• W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural Food & Community Ethics
• Michigan Apple Committee
• Michigan Farm Bureau
• Spartan Stores
• Superior Sales
• Walsma and Lyons, Inc.
• Goodness Greeness
• Pearson Foods Corporation
• Walsma & Lyons
• Whole Foods
• Hearty Fresh
• Miedema Produce
  

MIFFS Donors
Since November 2010, 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...

• Chad & Emily Beutel, Kalamazoo
• Jim Bingen, East Lansing
• Elaine Brown, Laingsburg
• Morse & Arma Brown, Livonia
• Pamela Burke, Remus
• Jane Bush, AppleSchram Orchards, Charlotte
• Doug Christensen, Brighton
• Keith & Laska Creagh, Williamston
• James Czarkowski, East Leroy
• Patti Davidson, Pentwater
• Larry Dyer, Petoskey
• Ken & Jan Engle, Williamsburg
• Rhonda Fackert, Brighton
• John Fisk, Okemos
• Julien & Theresa Fowler, Grand Rapids
• Grazing Fields Egg Cooperative, Charlotte
• Nancy Guthrie, Sunshine Prairie Farms, Delton
• Mark & Jane Herbert, Delton
• Thomas Kalchik, Grand Ledge
• Laurajeanne Kehn, Frankenmuth
• James Krenek, Grand Ledge
• Dru, Adam, Lydia & Alison Montri, Bath
• Terri Novak, Clarksville
• Dr. Leroy Ray Jr., Bloomingdale
• Kate Redman, Traverse City
• Celeste Sturdevant Reed, Williamston
• Phil & Susan Rios, Grand Rapids
• Ron Steiner, Pentwater
• Michael & Julia Studier, Tower Hill Farm in Sodus
• Clyde Taylor, Mt Pleasant