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In Case you have not yet seen it. Since most of our soils are too wet to work in the fields (another advantage of hoop houses:)) you may have time to watch this if you work with or are developing food hubs. Assessing a food hub is like assessing any business, for its strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement. Cheers Vicki Vicki Morrone Organic farming specialist Center For Regional Food Systems at MSU 480 Wilson Rd Rm 303 East Lansing, MI 48824 517-353-3542/517-282-3557 (cell) Www.MichiganOrganic.Msu.edu From: <Pirog>, Rich Pirog <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Reply-To: Rich Pirog <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: Sunday, July 6, 2014 at 4:14 PM To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Subject: Final Reminder: Michigan Food Hub Webinar - July 8th - 2 - 3:30 pm EDT Hi Michigan Food Hub Network Please mark your calendars for our upcoming webinar on Tuesday, July 8th from 2:00-3:30 pm EDT The presenters will include Darrow Vanderburgh-Wertz – portfolio manager for Healthy Food Commerce investments team at Wholesome Wave (based in Connecticut) and Mary Ann Nisely, Marketing and Community Relations specialist with Whole Foods: 1. Using Wholesome Wave's Food Hub Business Assessment Toolkit to assess the strengths and weaknesses of your food hub 2. Partnerships between food hubs and Whole Foods Short bio on Darrow —— Darrow Vanderburgh-Wertz is the Portfolio Manager for the Healthy Food Commerce Investments team at Wholesome Wave, where she works to build strong regional food systems. Day-to-day, she provides business planning, investor coordination, and deal structuring assistance to food hubs that serve small farmers and low-income customers. Short bio on Mary Ann — — Mary Ann Nisely has been with Whole Foods since 2000, advancing through several different roles to her current position as Marketing and Communit Relations specialist. She grew up working in her family’s greenhouse and flower shop business in Ann Arbor, Michigan. There is no need to RSVP. Here is the link to log into the webinar: https://connect.msu.edu/richpirog If you’ve never used Adobe Connect on the computer you will be using, please use the “Test your connection” link: http://connect.msu.edu/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm Hope you can join us Rich Pirog and Marty Gerencer Rich Pirog, Senior Associate Director MSU Center for Regional Food Systems 480 Wilson Road, Room 313 East Lansing, MI 48824 Office: 517-353-0694 Cell: 515-231-7556 E-mail: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> foodsystems.msu.edu ************* To subscribe to the listserv for the Michigan Food Hub Learning and Innovation Network, email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> with "SUB MIFoodHub" and your name (e.g, SUB MIFoodHub Joe Smith) in the body (not subject) of the email. You may leave the list at any time by sending an email with "SIGNOFF MIFoodHub" in the body (not subject) of the email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. If you would like to access previous postings to the Mich-Organic listserv you can copy and paste the following URL into your browser address bar http://list.msu.edu/archives/mich-organic.html