A Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health funded project to determine whether claiming (receipt) of Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) results in decreased risk and increase protective factors for adverse childhood experiences...

The 2022 Participatory Modeling Field School in Detroit, Michigan, features four days of hands-on workshops, keynote addresses by leaders in the participatory modeling (PM) field, and opportunities to learn about and model problems of concern to urba...

Providing diagnostic services to veterinarians, scientists, and farmers. This includes performing tests, consultation, and the preparation of written reports.

Conducted an evaluation of 10 Cents a Meal to understand the impact of the program on school children's consumption of Michigan-grown fruits, vegetables, and legumes as well as the impact on Michigan's economy and farm/food businesses. Evaluation res...

Support a cohort of Michigan-based hospitals and healthcare systems to advance their procurement of healthy, local foods from a diverse array of community-based farm and food businesses. Convene partners, participate in group activities, conduct surv...

The 2021 MSU Organic Farmer Training Program is a 50/50 mix of field and online learning at the MSU Student Organic Farm and field trips to sustainable farms throughout Michigan. Participants write a farm business plan and engage in hands-on activiti...

Located in the Riverdale neighborhood, near Brightmoor, the Partnership promotes urban agriculture research through community-based initiatives. The DPFLI is a resource for urban growers, students, and neighbors to come together and learn about agric...

This USDA Risk Management Agency Co-Operative Agreement Project is a one-year project that is educating adult small-scale farmers who identify as a person of color, BIPOC, socially-disadvantaged, underserved. )utreach, engagement and zoom-based educa...

Colleen Matts works throughout Michigan to help cultivate local food purchasing programs at institutions such as schools, colleges, and hospitals by linking farm to institution programs and partners, developing and sharing resources, and providing te...

The Institute of Agricultural Technology and Wayne County Community College District partnership allows students to earn a certificate from MSU in fruit and vegetable crop management and in landscape management while working toward an associate degre...

In this USDA-funded project, a team of seven NGOs serving beginning farmers, Extension educators, and members from the Center for Regional Food Systems, are developing curriculum that engages beginning farmers by providing technical information on pr...

The Michigan Good Food Fund is a $30 million loan fund that supports good food entrepreneurs, particularly women and BIPOC owners, working to increase access to healthy food and spark economic opportunity in places that need it most. Serving low inco...

The Michigan Good Food Charter is an action and advocacy framework that promotes collaboration to advance a “good food system” in Michigan, that is a thriving food economy distinguished by equity, health, and sustainability. The Charter was initially...

Consulting with Renee Wallace, executive director of FoodPlus on a variety of her projects related to food systems in Detroit and Flint. These include helping her develop a proposal for a cooperative project with other MSU faculty.

Nematode management

This non-profit youth support service has been committed to the development of purpose-driven individuals through education, personal growth, arts, industry and sports for many years. I have worked with them to implement a curriculum, together with t...

This project addresses production, market, financial, and legal risk management issues, and seeks to better inform beginning, limited resource, and socially disadvantaged (SD) specialty crop producers how to identify and mitigate risk, navigate disas...

The project addressed management and mitigation approaches related to production, financial, and human risks and provide information available to beginning, Latino, limited resources (LR), and socially disadvantaged (SD) specialty crop producers on h...

Provided logistical and teaching support to faculty/ practitioners who include community engaged teaching and learning in their classrooms.

Identification of wood species used in 1910 and 1913 to build Lansing City Rescue Mission. Wood identification using macroscopical features

The Sugarbeet Advancement variety trials are agricultural research trials conducted to compare several traits of different sugarbeet varieties. During the growing season, the Sugarbeet Advancement team worked to set up, plant, harvest, and collect da...