Most everyone appreciates that MFB’s State Annual Meeting has shed some extra pounds in recent years. What was once sprawled across almost four days is now squished into just two. One drawback, though, is that there’s still a lot to see — but in less time — so it’s easy to miss things.
This year’s Promotion & Education Showcase was a simple poster exhibit in the Welsh and Secchia lobbies — simple but informative posters sharing several county Farm Bureaus’ best efforts under 2024’s Connecting Communities initiative.
You’ll recall that, instead of hosting our usual Voice of Agriculture Conference back in February, Michigan Farm Bureau this year took a different approach. We took that event’s healthy budget line and made it available to individual county Farm Bureaus as grant allotments so y’all could invest in some new outreach programming — new, targeted and local.
The results were impressive, so if you missed these posters in Grand Rapids earlier this month, take a minute to click on each here for some inspired ideas and/or warm Farm Bureau fuzzies:
- Agricultural Careers
- On-Farm Events
- Road Safety
- Media Outreach
- Community Events (This one’s a twofer; be sure to see both pages.)
Throughout the year we also took a closer look at these outstanding Connecting Communities projects:
- Mecosta County Farm Bureau: ‘Food Preservation 101’
- Road-safety events in Van Buren and several other counties
- Hillsdale County’s ‘Farm Market Bingo’
- Barry County's fridge magnet farm directory
- Popular agritourism destination hosts Taste of Clinton County
Obviously we couldn’t get out to every great activity county Farm Bureaus came up with under the Connecting Communities banner, but hopefully some of these will get gears turning in your area!
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