Michigan Farm to ECE Network 2024 Grow More Award Nomination
It’s time to nominate early childhood education and care leaders for the Michigan Grow More Award! The Grow More Award is designed to recognize early childhood education and care providers, farmers, and food producers who are doing exceptional work in early childhood education and care on the farm.
Know a Farm to ECE champion? Nominate them for the Michigan Grow More Award! The Grow More Award recognizes early childhood care and education providers, farmers, and food producers who do exceptional work in the field of early childhood care and education (Farm to ECE).
Farm to ECE in Michigan includes local food sourcing, nutrition education, and gardening for children ages 0-5 in early childhood care and education settings. Children, families, early childhood care and education providers, and farmers all benefit from Farm to ECE.
Nominations must be submitted by Friday, September 1, 2024.
Nominate a farm as ECE Champion
The award winners will be announced at the Michigan Farm to ECE virtual network meeting in October.
The categories
For early childhood education and care providers
Early childhood care and education providers participating in the Farm to Early Childhood Education effort include Daycare centers, family homes, Head Start and Early Head Start, tribal child care programs, and preschools in K-12 schools. Nominations (either self-nominations or from others) may include any or all of the following areas:
- Procurement: Buying or sourcing locally grown or produced food
- Gardening: Planting, growing and harvesting fruits, vegetables and edible plants
- Food and farming educational activities: Educational activities on food, nutrition and farming that teach children how food grows and where it comes from.
For farmers and food producers
A farmer and/or food producer is anyone who grows or provides one or more varieties of Michigan crops/products to an early childhood education and care (ECE) setting (e.g., a farmer with a CSA or a local chef who donates surplus produce from their garden).
About the Michigan Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) Network
The Michigan Farm to ECE Network works to ensure that children ages 0-5 can grow, select and eat nutritious, local foods in early childhood care and education settings.
Farm to ECE in Michigan includes local food sourcing, nutrition education, and gardening. Children, families, ECE providers, and farmers all benefit from Farm to ECE.
The Michigan Farm to ECE network exists to:
- improve access to nutritious foods,
- increase nutritional awareness and health outcomes and
- support ECE providers in their work to improve children’s learning environments.
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