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MARQUETTE Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Monday released a statement after the Michigan Legislature passed her stimulus plan, which includes $55 million to help small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grants of up to $20,000 will be made available to small businesses across the state that need support this winter. The relief bill also includes $3.5 million for grants of up to $40,000 each for live music and entertainment venues, and includes $45 million in direct payments to workers who have been laid off or furloughed as a result of the coronavirus, with a direct focus on restaurant and hospitality workers.
“I proposed this stimulus plan to the legislature in November because I know how much our families, frontline workers and small businesses need relief as we head into the winter,” Whitmer said in a statement. “This bipartisan relief bill will provide families and businesses the support they need to stay afloat as we continue working to
The pandemic-adapted Organic Farmer Training Program will return in 2021.
Katie Brandt | Dec 18, 2020
After a year hiatus in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Michigan State University Organic Farmer Training Program is returning in 2021 to offer safe beginning farmer training.
A signature program of the MSU Student Organic Farm, the 2021 MSU OFTP will be a 50-50 mix of field and online learning, including 11 hands-on days (starting March 15) at the MSU Student Organic Farm, six field trip days to 15-plus production and educational farms, and 16 interactive online class days
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Check out the full schedule to see the plan for safe in-person learning and interactive online activities. The goal of OFTP is to create a learning community of aspiring and beginning farmers, farmworkers, homesteaders, educational gardeners and OFTP instructors to support each other in learning farm and business planning skills.