Upper Peninsula farmers and stakeholders discussed the effectiveness of USDA resources created in the 2018 Farm Bill as part of a listening session Thursday as work begins to make improvements for 2023.
Jeremy Grey Cloud Sparks is the farm manager at Bay Mill Community College’s incubator farm and says farm bill funding has brought traditional teachings of the region’s indigenous community into classrooms while balancing principles of modern agriculture.
“That’s going to help forge a hands-on agriculture curriculum that they’re hoping to introduce that to the state on a larger level,” he shares.
