Webinars
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Michigan Farmer Market Vendor Journey Map and Recorded Presentation
Published on September 12, 2025
The Michigan Farmers Market Vendor Journey Map is a free, step-by-step guide for new farmers and food producers. It covers licensing, marketing, display tips, and prep essentials to help you succeed at your first farmers market -
Food Hub Receiving Process Checklist and Template
Published on September 12, 2025
Good quality product begins at the receiving door. This short video and templated document provide food hubs with a checklist of items to consider as they build out their internal receiving processes. -
Tribal Food Producer Information Session: Requirements of Packaged Food Products – September 10, 2025
Published on September 10, 2025
This Tribal Food Producer Info session hosted by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center discussed available resources pertaining to the requirements of packaging and marketing food products. -
Driving Demand: Identifying your Target Consumer and Crafting a Story that Will Sell – August 27, 2025
Published on September 9, 2025
This webinar from the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center guides food and farm businesses through understanding their customers to increase their sales. -
Get Grant Ready: How Farmers Can Use Cash Flow to Prepare for Funding Webinar – August 21, 2025
Published on August 27, 2025
In this webinar, food and farm business owners can learn how to use cash flow and profitability statements to prepare for grant opportunities. -
Tribal Food Producer Information Session: Tracking expenses and sales – June 11, 2025
Published on June 26, 2025
Learn about tracking farm business expenses and sales using a sales and expense tracking sheet, including information on how to use this for tax purposes. -
Preparing for Funding: A Self-Guided Learning Journey for Food and Farm Businesses
Published on June 19, 2025
This video series will guide food and farm business owners through the process of preparing for financing and grant funding -
What you need to know: Loan Readiness for First Time Borrowers Webinar – June 4, 2025
Published on June 18, 2025
Applying for a loan is a big step for a small business, but it doesn’t have to be intimidating. Understanding the lending process is an essential step for growing your business and accessing federal funding. -
Tribal Food Producer Information Session: Tax Preparation and Tax Resources – March 12, 2025
Published on March 24, 2025
Through this session hosted by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, Tribal food producers can learn about funding opportunities and the importance of tax recordkeeping. -
Racial Equity & Food Justice Training Webinars
Published on February 26, 2025
Explore the intersection of racial equity and food justice with these two webinars and reflection worksheets from Shiloh Maples for the Michigan Local Food Council Network. -
Tribal Producer Information Session – December 5, 2024
Published on December 18, 2024
Through this information session hosted by the Great Lakes Intertribal Food Coalition and the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, viewers can learn about resources to support Tribal food producers. -
Equitable Community Food Assessments webinars
Published on December 17, 2024
MSU Center for Regional Food Systems, Food Communities Network – Réseau Communautés Nourricières, and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future’s Food Policy Networks project co-hosted a webinar series on community food assessments in 2024. -
What you Need to Know: Telling a Compelling Story Webinar
Published on December 6, 2024
Through this webinar from the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, viewers can learn how to share their business story to funders in a succinct and impactful way. -
What you Need to Know: Grants 101 Webinar
Published on August 30, 2024
Through this webinar from the Great Lakes Midwest Regional Food Business Center, viewers can learn about preparing for grant applications, including considerations and tips for writing grants that get funded. -
What You Need to Know: Get a jump on grant applications across the Great Lakes Midwest Webinar
Published on June 21, 2024
This webinar presents information about how to obtain a Unique Entity Identifier for federal grant applications as well as information on upcoming assistance and funding opportunities. -
A Call to Redistribute Resources and Power: Race Equity Dialogue in the Agrifood Business Space Webinar
Published on May 2, 2024
A REFS webinar which focuses on race equity-centered dialogue on the agrifood business space and discusses recommendations put forth by the USDA Equity Commission. -
MFIN Virtual Network Meeting: Sustainable Procurement at the Institutional Level
Published on April 9, 2024
A recording of the MFIN Virtual Network Meeting focused on how institutions can leverage their purchasing power to help advance sustainability in food service. -
School Food Basics Webinar Series for the Michigan Local Food Council Network
Published on January 5, 2024
Learn from the Farm to Programs Consultants at the Michigan Department of Education and the Michigan Farm to School team about the basics of school food service and meal programs in this series through the Michigan Local Food Council Network. -
Envisioning Farmer-Focused Local Food Purchasing Incentive Programs
Published on October 16, 2023
State-level local food purchasing incentives typically provide funding to schools to purchase local foods—but what if we flipped the narrative? -
Local Food Incentive Programs - State Program Flash Talks
Published on August 24, 2023
The MSU Center for Regional Food Systems and National Farm to School Network hosted a two-part webinar series that explored ten different local food purchasing incentives (LFPIs) across the nation on August 9 and 14.
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