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- EIN 38-3399769
- (517) 432-0712
- 480 Wilson Rd Ste 172 East Lansing MI 48824-6402 USA
- miffs.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Education, Higher Education
Mission: Connecting beginning and historically underserved farmers to each other and resource opportunities; ensuring social justice, environmental stewardship, and profitability.
Programs: Food system development: focus on supporting beginning farmers in growing and supplying local food for consumption. This includes managing two farm development centers that are home to beginning incubator farmers and demonstration sites for educational programming.
miffs events: miffs has two flagship events, the michigan family farms conference and meet the buyers. The family farms conference is a forum for beginning, small-scale and culturally diverse farmers to network, learn, and build sustainable family farms. Meet the buyers includes a morning workshop on how farmers can talk to buyers, and an evening reception for farmers to network with buyers - including institutions like schools and hospitals, retailers, and food distributors.
multicultural ag program: provide outreach and technical assistance to historically underserved farmers in michigan on various topics related to risk management, including crop insurance and access to specialty markets.
other programs are administered that encourage cooperative behavior to create and support substantive food and agriculture systems for producers and consumers in michigan. The organization administers hoop house construction that lengthens the growing season and collective growing & marketing activities that promote viable producer livelihoods. Technical assistance was also provided under these programs.