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Farmers interested in selling to local schools and school food service directors, this is your chance to connect to this great opportunity. Please join us to meet farmers and good service directors and hear how its being done in our own state. Plus you can tour the Student Organic Farm folliwing the meeting if you like. Hope to see you there. Vicki From: Colleen Matts [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 12:57 PM To: Colleen Matts Subject: [Michigan Farm To School - Blog] Farm to School Meet & Greet Farmers and school food service directors, please join us for a Michigan Farm to School Meet & Greet! This Meet & Greet event will give school food service directors and farmers a chance to meet each other and develop farm to school programs in their areas. School food service directors from Calhoun, Ingham, and Oakland Counties, among others, are expected to attend. If you are a school food service director who is ready to bring local foods into your school meals program or a farmer interested in selling your products to local schools, please join us for this event and get connected! Where: Community Room at MSU Federal Credit Union 600 Crescent Rd., East Lansing, MI When: Monday, August 10th, 2009 1-3 pm The Meet & Greet will be followed by an optional tour from 3:30 – 5 pm of the Student Organic Farm (3291 College Rd in Holt, MI) and its six hoophouses with Outreach Coordinator Adam Montri. Space is limited! To register for this event, please contact me at [log in to unmask] or 517.432.0310 by Friday, August 7th. Feel free to pass along this notice or the attached flyer! Colleen Matts Farm to School Specialist CS Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems Michigan State University 303 Natural Resources Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1222 517.432.0310 www.mifarmtoschool.msu.edu -- Posted By Colleen Matts to Michigan Farm To School - Blog <http://blog.mifarmtoschool.msu.edu/2009/07/farm-to-school-meet-greet.html> at 7/28/2009 09:56:00 AM