WIU guest speaker Dr. Vandana Shiva drew a large crowd of FIG members to her talk last night in the Grand Ballroom of the University Union. Entitled, “Sustainability and the Global Food Crisis,” her talk addressed a variety of themes that are important to FIG such as corporate control of farm land, seed varieties, water [...]
Family food traditions revealed at holidays like Thanksgiving help define who we are.
FIG is a key partner in USDA grant proposal for community gardens in Macomb.
Voting with your fork and eating local results in more support for local farmers and your local economy.
FIG Summer Local Foods Dinner fundraiser a great success!
Field Day 2009 at the Allison Organic Farm
For the second year in a row FIG participated in the Macomb Heritage Days parade and passed out over 350 heritage tomato plants and Local Food Guides. Joel Gruver grew all of the plants from seed, transplanted them, and got them ready for FIG to distribute. John Curtis lent us the carts for transporting the [...]
2008 Local Foods Dinner a great success!
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