What does good food mean?

Last week I was really excited to attend the Michigan Good Food Summit in Lansing.  It is always inspiring to connect with others doing good work and it was great to be in the room with 300 other ‘foodies’.  I liked the description that good food is healthy (it provides nurishment), green (produced in an enviornmentally sustainable way) fair (no one is exploited in the production) and affordable (all people have access to it). One fun fact that has stuck with me is that it is easier to transport a vegetable around the world then to the school down the street. We need to as communities reinvent the local food infrastructure. As I’ve come to expect Flint was  well represented, from farmers to nutrition educators, youth training programs and resource providers I was once again convinced we are on the cutting edge of what is happening around the state. Check out www.michiganfood.org for more information!