ValleyHUB KVCC

02/13/2025

If you'd like to learn more about the community education type of work that take place at the Food Innovation Center, this episode of the Connecting Communities podcast is a great way!

The Food Innovation Center at KVCC is a community-driven institution that empowers residents by creating opportunities and teaching skills that improve participants' quality of life. Hristina Petrovska and Rachel Bair from the Food Innovation Center join cohosts Joe Byars and David Benac for a conversation about the Food Innovation Center, the upcoming Foodways Symposium, and the amazing opportunities to get involved. Make sure to listen all the way to the end of the episode for a beautiful story about the cultural importance and community-building potential of saving and sharing seeds and the memories that go with them.💚

ValleyHUB KVCC

Listen to the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6uXSjfDdXSpUhcdOqEo2BE

12/12/2024

We are so excited to be a part of this regional and national movement to innovate school meals! Thanks for visiting, Food Futures and MSU Center for Regional Food Systems!

10/09/2024

Hip Hip Hooray! ValleyHUB Food Hub is celebrating Julie Guthrie, too!

Julie is a local food in schools champion and partners with us to get more local food on more local plates. Her dedication to connect all ages to farms in their area is powerful. Yay Julie!

Tonight at 7 pm at City Hall we will be awarding the Cyndi Trobeck Community Service Award to Julie Guthrie. Julie not only fights food insecurity in our community every day at Otsego Public Schools, but she also coordinates and organizes many events for Otsego families outside of the schools. She definitely understands the term "service" and has a heart for those who are often forgotten or ignored in our society. She has also donated her time teaching others how to prepare and cook their own food at Christian Neighbors with their new demonstration kitchen. Feel free to come down tonight and help us celebrate Julie and all that she does for the Otsego community.

10/08/2024

The Kalamazoo Seed Collaborative is using this beautiful breezy day to winnow some Provider Bush Bean seeds that were grown at the Food Innovation Center’s seed garden. Seeds will be available in the Seed Library. Join this amazing trio this evening at 6:30 pm to learn about this beautiful initiative!

09/27/2024

Our friends at Tillers International are offering a canning class. Check it out!

09/25/2024

Full room at the Honorable Harvest Lecture Series last night!!
Thank you, Chaz, for sharing your story, and for giving us such a beautiful perspective to slow down and appreciate the animate living world around us!

https://www.rootedluv.com/

09/21/2024

We’re at the farmers market today with Kalamazoo Valley recruitment AND the Kalamazoo Seed Collective Seed Library. Come visit us and make plans to grow your garden and your career!!! The sun is trying to come out, and there’s still plenty of parking. 🌞😉

08/12/2024

Sarah Rypma Photography LLC visited ValleyHUB last week for a photo shoot for the Michigan Department of Education's 10 Cents A Meal program. Much, much more to come - but check out this sneak peak of some of the very cool photos she captured!

Learn more about our program: valleyhub.kvcc.edu

08/07/2024

08/01/2024

Look at that giant stack of totes!

Sure, to some that just looks like a couple of pallets of plastic bins - no big deal right?! WRONG!

What these totes represent is that we have TRIPLED the food moving throughout Southwest Michigan from our incredible farms and food makers to a remarkable group of school, early care and education, hospital, adult care facility, café, restaurant, and food distribution partners.

Picture in your mind the thousands and thousands of pounds of food that these totes will allow us to move!

Learn more: valleyhub.kvcc.edu

07/31/2024

More information coming soon!

Michigan organizations to receive awards from the Lake Michigan School Food System Innovation hub to build more local, more nourishing, and more loving school food systems in Michigan.