The Thumb Blessing Box on the Thumbody Express.

Thumb-area collaboration blesses bus riders with food and more

For over a decade, Tuscola County Intermediate School District has worked with Michigan Fitness Foundation to respond to needs in the community by delivering nutrition education and physical activity promotion through Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education programs. 

Creation Coffee's first brick-and-mortar coffee shop is located at 5023 Eastman Ave. in Midland, Michigan.
Midland’s Creation Coffee to expand to Mt. Pleasant

Following the success of its first store in Midland, Creation Coffee plans to open two new locations including one in Mt. Pleasant.  

PODCAST: From health inequity to a “hyperjump” for Michigan

On this week's episode of Michigan's State of Health, we're digging into  how COVID-19 has helped to raise awareness of Michigan's health inequities and the importance of addressing them.

Amy St. Germain, a nutrition educator at the YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids, works as a Farmers Market Food Navigator at the Muskegon Farmers Market.
Food Navigators deliver healthy food to the people

While many farmers markets draw people to their location to buy local fresh fruits and vegetables, the YMCA of Greater Grand Rapids takes the farmers market to the people of Muskegon Heights. 

Overwhelmed by long-distance caregiving? There’s an app for that

With CAREgivers Insight, a mobile app from Great Lakes Bay entrepreneurs, families and medical teams can streamline communication and stay up-to-date with a loved one's health status.

Happy Haunting this Friday at Pumpkin Promenade in downtown Mt. Pleasant

Bring the whole family for Mt. Pleasant’s annual trick-or-treating, fall festival event.

A DIGs workshop on asemma, or tobacco.
Here’s how the UP’s Debweyendan Indigenous Gardens build health, community, and food sovereignty

The sprawling community gardens aim to celebrate and preserve the knowledge and cultural identity of tribal people living in and around the village of L’Anse.

PODCAST: How COVID-19 helped Michiganders reconnect to care

Welcome to the Michigan's State of Health podcast, where we'll be sitting down with Michigan health leaders to discuss the myriad ways that COVID has exposed our health system's flaws and resulted in positive change.

Christmas Outreach returns to in-person shopping for 2021

Christmas Outreach of Isabella County returns to in-person shopping a year after drive-thru COVID-19 measures.

Three generations of family support 10 children in their pumpkin-growing venture

Place one patch of land, a sprinkling of pumpkin seeds, and a whole lot of familial love into a cauldron and poof! You’ve got Papa Mike’s Pumpkin Patch. Now in its third year of business, the patch is a hobbyist venture run almost entirely by children ranging from six to 17 years of age.

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