Michigan students are again receiving free school breakfast and lunch this school year but incentives to support local food purchases have been cut in half. Wendy Crowley, Farm to Program Consultant for the Michigan Department of Education, oversees the 10 Cents a Meal for Michigan’s Kids and Farms program and tells Brownfield it’s a cut […]
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