“Meating” the Need For Our Village, Cass City, Michigan
December, 2019

“Meating” the Need For Our Village was started in 2015 by a group of twelve year-old friends who realized that their local food pantries did not have enough funding to provide high-quality protein to their customers. After realizing this, they used their agriculture background to raise broiler chickens to donate to local food pantries.

To date, “Meating” the Need has had a $60,000 impact on the community through meat, milk, eggs, cheese, vegetables, butter, and nutrition education materials. Recently, Fresh Baby generously donated nutrition education materials to help “Meating” the Need educate children of food pantry clients on the importance of a balanced diet. The materials donated included bags, plates, cups, portion cards, and silverware (for younger children). The Boots and Bling 4-H club assembled the materials into the appropriate bags for distribution. All of these materials are in English, Spanish, and Bilingual so children can choose the bag of materials with the language they are most comfortable with.

“Meating” the Need is very grateful and excited about the opportunity to work with Fresh Baby and we can’t wait to see what the future holds!

A short video highlighting “Meating” the Need for Our Village can be found on NBC 

 

Good Neighbors Food Pantry, Boyne City, Michigan
November, 2019

Helping others in the spirit of giving is what the holidays are all about. The Fresh Baby Team joined Good Neighbors Food Pantry to help prepare for Thanksgiving, filling donated Farm Fresh bags with a green bean casserole recipe and ingredients plus other Thanksgiving dinner menu items. 

The volunteers that shop and run the pantry do some amazing work and we were proud to participate. The Good Neighbor Food Pantry serves 50-60 families a week. Learn more about The Good Neighbor Food Pantry here:  https://tinyurl.com/ycefmtye

After-school Cooking Club
Supporting 3 sessions: October 2018, March 2019, October 2019 – Boyne City Middle School, Boyne City, Michigan

Char-Em ISD CA4K Chopped! Class
June 2019 – Boyne City High School, Boyne City, Michigan

Sheridan Elementary 2nd Grade
December 2019
Petoskey, Michigan

December 2018, Norfolk, Virginia

October 2018, Petoskey, Michigan

 

Good Neighbor Food Pantry, Boyne City, Michigan

We are proud to support the upcoming 2018, Good Neighbor Food Pantry cooking classes for their clients. The Good Neighbor Food Pantry serves 50-60 families a week and through a grant purchased MyPlate Grocery Bags. To accompany the bags we donated Fresh Baby Fridge Thermometers.

Thank you to all of the volunteers at the Good Neighbor Food Pantry for your dedication and hard work, you do it with such compassion and dignity.

🥦You can learn more about The Good Neighbor Food Pantry here:  https://tinyurl.com/ycefmtye

🍒View our Fresh Baby Fridge Thermometers here: https://tinyurl.com/yd9p95ug

🥕View our MyPlate Grocery Bags here: https://tinyurl.com/yb8ud3jn

The Manna Food Project

Crock-Pot and Blender Cooking Classes

We are proud to support the upcoming 2018 Manna Food Project Crock-Pot and Blender Cooking Classes. Manna has partnered with the Health Department of Northwest Michigan, Groundwork Center for Resilient Communities, and MSU Extension conduct eight Crock-Pot and eight Blender cooking classes for 400 pantry clients this year. Participants learn safe knife skills and how to customize a nutritious recipe to their personal tastes. Each client brings home a new Crock-Pot or blender, a three-piece kitchen knife set, vegetable peeler, cutting board, measuring cups and spoons, colander, Fresh Baby Fridge Thermometer, spatula, and fresh ingredients to prepare several easy-to-make recipes.

Manna Food Project (Manna), a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization, helps feed the hungry in Antrim, Charlevoix, and Emmet Counties. Over 250 core volunteers, seven full-time staff members, and one part-time employee work together to fulfill this mission. Manna is a partner organization of the national Feeding America Food Bank Network. Manna operates a food bank (distribution center), a food rescue program, a weekly food pantry, and the “Food 4 Kids” backpack program.

🥦You can learn more about The Manna Food Project here: https://tinyurl.com/yd9p95ug

🍒View our Fresh Baby Fridge Thermometers here: https://tinyurl.com/yd9p95ug

🥕View our MyPlate Grocery Bags here: https://tinyurl.com/yb8ud3jn

2016-2018 Fresh Baby is excited to be a campaign sponsor of the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Drink Up Initiative that encourages everyone to drink more water. The Drink Up logo is seen on our Fresh Baby 4 Section MyPlates and a portion of the profit is donated to the Partnership for a Healthier America’s Drink Up Initiative. We are dedicated to encouraging American’s to make the shift to healthier drink choices.

2016-2018 Partner Members of Healthy Kids Healthy Michigan 

2017 -To embrace the holiday spirit of giving, our team put together Fresh Baby Get Active Kits to donate for Toys for Tots. It was a true joy for us to do this and we hope it brought joy to children in our area for the 2017 holiday season.

2017 & 2018- Fresh Baby is pleased to support the Rotary Club of Petoskey, Michigan and their 2017 and 2018 Diamonds & Denim event, with proceeds benefiting the Petoskey Band Boosters. Fresh Baby collaborated with Vilahbloom.com to offer a luxury diaper bag filled with healthy Fresh Baby products for their event auction.

2017 Donation

2018 Donation

2017 & 2018 -Fresh Baby is thrilled to support the Petoskey’s Connecting Women in Business GO Grant Program for Girl Fundraiser. A donation of Fresh Baby Nutrition Education Products, with a value of over $140.00 was donated to the silent auction, with all proceeds going to the GO Grants. The GO Grants are for young girls in the Petoskey area who have an idea or passion to try something news. The first grants were awarded in 2010 and since that time, 121 girls have received nearly $44,000 in grants.

2016-For several years Cheryl Tallman, founder of Fresh Baby, identifies a local project that leverages the company’s capabilities to improve the health of kids in our community. This year, Fresh Baby chose to support second grade students and teachers by donating fun products and teaching materials that align with the USDA MyPlate Guidelines for healthy eating. The $2,100 product donation will benefit 349-second grade students in the Petoskey and Boyne City School Districts. For the full press release, click here.

Fresh Baby was thrilled to support the Great Lakes Energy employee holiday luncheon and auction with the proceeds benefiting Angel Ambassadors for 2016.  It is always a pleasure to support local charities. Fresh Baby’s picnic basket of nutrition education products was valued at over $150.

November 2016 product donation of 4-Section MyPlate’s, MyPlate and Let’s Move Puzzles, adult MyPlate’s, 4 – to 6-oz. Kid’s MyPlate Dairy Cups and more. A total over $100,000 to support the network…where dreams really do come true! The products were used for Project Toy Drop: Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, GA.

2016 – Fresh Baby donated a themed gift basket for the 6th Annual Long Island Hospitality Ball with all proceeds of the auction being donated to the Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund.

Fresh Baby participated in the Petoskey Children’s Health Fair, donating our Kid’s Farmer’s Market bags and providing a planting activity for children of all ages to plant peas and start their own garden.