“Eat food. Not too much.
Mostly plants.”
~Michael Pollan
In Defense of Food
Providing Fresh Local Food From Farm to Pantry
Our Mission
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To provide locally grown, healthful, fresh food to people in
need, and
Support local agriculture by purchasing fresh produce from
area farms at fair market prices.
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Our 2012 Farmers
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Bakker's Acres
Bardenhagen Farms
TLC Tomatoes
Still Point Farm
Plum Valley Farm
Second Spring Farm
Picked Today Freshness
Norconk Farm
Providence Farm
Sweeter Song Farm
Shetler Family Dairy
Cherry Bend Farm
Meadow Farm
Zenners Farm
Coleman Farm
Isadore Farm
In addition to feeding us the freshest
foods, productive farms
• contribute to the local economy,
• provide habitat for wildlife, and
• frame the rural beauty of our region.
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Second Spring Farm
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Agriculture is the state’s
second largest industry,
generating about
$37billion annually.
In our five county region
alone there are more
than 1,500 farms.
-Michigan Department of
Agriculture, 2001 and
the Michigan Land Use
Institute
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Agriculture is emerging as a solution to
mitigating climate change, reducing
public health problems and costs, making
cities more livable, and creating jobs in a
stagnant global economy.
~Danielle Nierenberg
Director, Worldwatch Institute's
Nourishing the Planet project
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Sweeter Song Farm
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Michigan ranks ninth in
the U.S. in terms of
farmland threatened by
development
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More than half of our
farmers are over the
age of 57
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Economic threats to local
agriculture keep small farms
struggling and discourage
new farms.
Without a sustainable market of fair
prices and wages, small local farms
may soon be a thing of the past
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Providing
pantries
with fresh
local food
year-round
Zenners Farm
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Fresh Food Partnership
reinvested more than $53,000
into our local agriculture in 2012
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“You cause the grass to grow for
the livestock and plants for man
to cultivate, that he may bring
forth food from the earth...”
~Psalm 104 ESV
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Community Bowl Making with
Blackbird Arts Studio
and Chai Pottery
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Over 380,000 visits were made
to area pantries in 2012
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“Because of the increasing rates of
obesity, unhealthy eating habits, and
physical inactivity, we may see the first
generation that will be less healthy and
have a shorter life expectancy than their
parents.”
~Richard Carmona
Former U.S. Surgeon General
March 2004
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A Community Challenge
An increase in pantry visits by five-fold since
Fresh Food Partnership was founded in 2003
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Our 25 Pantries
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ABBA House
ACTS
Bellaire Food Pantry
Benzie Area Christian
Neighbors
Benzie Baby Pantry
Community Lighthouse
Empire Area Food Pantry
Faith Reformed Church
Father Fred
Fresh Winds Christian Pantry
Good Samaritan
Grace Episcopal
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Grand Traverse Baby Pantry
Immaculate Conception
KAIR
Leelanau Christian Neighbors
Mancelona Food Pantry
Peninsula Bible
Prayer Fyre
Rapid City
St. Patricks
Salvation Army
Traverse House
Trinity Lutheran
Women’s Resource Center
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Fresh Food Partnership
distributed over 70,000 lbs.
of fresh nutritious food to
area pantries in 2012
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“Let food be thy medicine
and medicine be thy food.”
~Hippocrates
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And God said, "Behold I have given you
every plant yielding seed that is on the
face of all the earth, and every tree with
seed in its fruit. You shall have them for
food."
~Genesis 1:29
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“The doctor of the future will no
longer treat the human frame with
drugs, but rather will cure and
prevent disease with nutrition.”
~Thomas Edison
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Fresh Food Partnership
relies entirely on
donations and fundraisers
like Empty Bowls!
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Thank you
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