VegMichigan

CELEBRATE EARTH DAY IN TRAVERSE CITY
2023-04-22 11:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | 1213 W Civic Center Dr · Traverse City, MI
CELEBRATE EARTH DAY IN TRAVERSE CITY

Come join us to celebrate Earth Day! At the Grand Traverse County Civic Center.
There will be live music, scavenger hunts, make-and-take eco-crafts, free (on-site) paper shredding, composting demonstrations, and much more!
Earth Day is a great day to learn about the importance of a plant-based diet and why shifting your diet from meat and other animal products to plant-based diets has a high potential for reducing carbon footprints and mitigating climate change, as well as improving human health, according to Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, a report from the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Join the VegMichigan Traverse City Meetup Group! – https://www.meetup.com/traverse-city-vegmichigan-meetup/

Grand Traverse County Civic Center. – 1213 W Civic Center Dr · Traverse City, MI

ANN ARBOR LUNCH MEETUP AT TASTE OF INDIA SUVAI
2023-04-22
ANN ARBOR LUNCH MEETUP AT TASTE OF INDIA SUVAI
THIS EVENT IS FULL.
VegMichigan is hosting a lunch meetup on Saturday, April 22 at Taste of India Suvai!
Join our VegMichigan Ann Arbor Meetup group to stay notified about future events – https://www.meetup.com/vegmichigan-greater-ann-arbor-area/

BE THE CHANGE! LETTERS TO LEGISLATORS FOR THE 2023 FARM BILL
2023-04-20 13:00 - 15:00 | 610 Woodmere Ave · Traverse City, MI
BE THE CHANGE! LETTERS TO LEGISLATORS FOR THE 2023 FARM BILL
Please join us for a fun afternoon of writing letters to legislators! Together we want to urge Congress to protect farm animals in the 2023 Farm Bill.
Renewed every five years, the Farm Bill dictates what our food and farm system looks like. Over time, the lobbying power of industrial agriculture has manipulated the Farm Bill to benefit its own bottom line and entrench cruel factory farming instead of supporting critical efforts to build a more humane food system for farm animals. We need your help advocating for change. Let’s “Be the change”!
Notecards, envelopes, pens, and paper will be provided.

Traverse Area District Library
610 Woodmere Ave · Traverse City, MI

We will be in the Thirlby Room at Main Library

FORAGING FELLOWSHIP: EATING AND NURTURING THE LOCAL LANDSCAPE (WITH @CHAOTICFORAGER)
2023-04-18 18:30 - 19:30
FORAGING FELLOWSHIP: EATING AND NURTURING THE LOCAL LANDSCAPE
In this presentation, Gabrielle Cerberville (aka @chaoticforager or “The Internet’s Mushroom Auntie”) discusses the many ways that foraging can improve and enrich communities. By partnering with the land and one another, we can infuse our shared green spaces with added value, provide ourselves and local wildlife with an abundance of nutritious, free food, and experience a deeper connection to nature.
Gabrielle Cerberville (aka @chaoticforager or “The Internet’s Mushroom Auntie”) is an enthusiastic, science-based foraging education content creator focused on mycology and holistic ecosystem awareness with a special focus on sustainable harvest. In 2021, she was selected as one of TikTok’s 150 Latinx Creatives, and in 2022 she was one of ten recipients of the TikTok Latinx Creatives Grant, in partnership with MACRO and UnbeliEVAble, which is funding a foraging docuseries she will be making over the next year. Gabrielle keeps busy with speaking engagements, creating entertaining educational content, writing her book (which she promises she will finish), and whipping up new experiments in the kitchen, and she will be adding even more to her plate by starting her PhD in Music Composition and Computer Technologies in the fall at the University of Virginia.

Join us on Zoom – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85041615334

TRAVERSE CITY COOKING CLASS (IN PERSON AT ORYANA)
2023-04-16 13:00 - 15:00
TRAVERSE CITY COOKING CLASS (IN PERSON AT ORYANA)

Join VegMichigan on Sunday, April 16, from 1 pm-3 pm at Oryana West in Traverse City for a fun cooking class featuring budget-friendly recipes with instructor Linda Szarkowski.
Learn how to turn vegetables and beans into a variety of dishes you and your family will love without spending too much time in the kitchen.
Learn how to make burgers, wraps, bowls, and more. Samples of each item will be included.

The class will be limited to 12 attendees and registration is $20/person. This is a prepaid event. YOU MUST PAY IN ADVANCE. Don’t miss out, sign up now! Please follow this link to register:
Cooking Class: Healthy and Delicious Eating That Doesn’t Break Your Budget | VegMichigan Online Store (square.site)

VIRTUAL EASTER-THEMED COOKING DEMO
2023-04-06 19:00 - 20:00
VIRTUAL EASTER-THEMED COOKING DEMO
Join us for a virtual, easter-themed cooking demo by chefs Luna and Nate.
Luna and Nate are professional chefs who run the vegan food blog Cooking Up Vegan. Combined, Luna and Nate have spent over 15 years as professional chefs and they are excited to demo a few of their recipes for us! Whether you are interested in plant-based eating for the animals, the planet, your health, or for everything, Cookingupvegan.com has tons of easy, unique, and delicious recipes that are great for everyone. They will be demoing their vegan deviled eggs and vegan lox.
Check out the recipes ahead of time and follow along with the demo if you want!
Deviled Eggs – https://www.cookingupvegan.com/recipes/vegan-deviled-eggs/
Lox – https://www.cookingupvegan.com/recipes/vegan-lox-from-carrots/

Join us on Zoom – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85044289340

TRAVERSE CITY MEETUP AND PLEDGE PICKUP AT EDSON FARMS
2023-04-05 11:00 - 13:00
TRAVERSE CITY MEETUP AND PLEDGE PICKUP AT EDSON FARMS
We have been delighted with the interest and camaraderie our new Traverse City group has developed. Please join us for a fun conversation about plant-based eating and life. All are welcome!
Please join our VegMichigan Traverse City Meetup group! – https://www.meetup.com/traverse-city-vegmichigan-meetup/events/291962501/

30-DAY PLANT-BASED PLEDGE FOR YPSILANTI LIBRARY
2023-03-30 16:00 - 18:00 | Ypsilanti District Library, 5577 Whittaker Rd, Ypsilanti, MI, 48197, United States
ps30-DAY PLANT-BASED PLEDGE FOR YPSILANTI
Are you new to plant-based eating and interested in trying popular plant-based foods for free? If so, please sign up for our plant-based food giveaway sponsored by VegMichigan! You will receive a reusable thermal bag along with your choice of three popular plant-based products.
Once you sign up, you can pick up your bag at the Ypsilanti District Library on Thursday, March 30 between 4 and 6pm.
5577 Whittaker Rd, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Sign up here: Ypsilanti Pledge Sign Up

ANN ARBOR MEETUP AT JERUSALEM GARDEN
2023-03-25 12:00 - 14:00
ANN ARBOR MEETUP AT JERUSALEM GARDEN
Since 1987, Jerusalem Garden in Ann Arbor has been using family recipes to make hummus, lentil soup, veggie grape leaves, baba ghanoush, tabouli, falafel sandwiches, and much more.
With plenty of vegan options and affordable prices, let’s meet to taste the flavors of the old world. Join us!
Please RSVP on the VegMichigan Ann Arbor Meetup Group – https://www.meetup.com/vegmichigan-greater-ann-arbor-area/events/291925167/

EMBRACING A PLANT-BASED LIFESTYLE
2023-03-23 18:30 - 20:00 | 5577 Whittaker Rd, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
EMBRACING A PLANT-BASED LIFESTYLE
Join us for an in-person presentation by Marc and Kim Ramirez. Hosted in partnership with the Ypsilanti Public Library.
Marc Ramirez, a former University of Michigan football player and co-founder of the nonprofit Chickpea and Bean, will discuss how he lost 50 pounds and reversed Type 2 diabetes and other illnesses with the power of plants. His wife Kim, co-founder of Chickpea and Bean, will share tips and tricks about what to shop for and how to prepare food while transitioning to a plant-based lifestyle. Marc has a wonderful story to share and will inspire you to make positive changes in your own life.
This event is in person at the Ypsilanti Public Library (5577 Whittaker Rd, Ypsilanti, MI 48197)

TRAVERSE CITY MEETUP AT STONEHOUND BREWING COMPANY
2023-03-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Stone Hound Brewing Company, 3593 Bunker Hill Rd,, Williamsburg, MI, 49690, United States
TRAVERSE CITY MEETUP AT STONEHOUND BREWING COMPANY
Join Val and Nicola, our Traverse City Meetup organizers, at Stonehound Brewing Company for a 100% plant-based menu!
Wraps, burgers, bowls, and snacks. Whatever your food preference (vegetarian, vegan, omnivore), everyone’s welcome!
Food orders are taken at the bar, so arrive whenever you want. Val and Nicola be there at noon.
Check out the menu – STONE HOUND BREWING CO.
Please RSVP through our Traverse City Meetup group

VIRTUAL PLANT-BASED COOKING DEMO - PLANT-BASED RECIPES FOR A BUDGET
2023-03-15 18:30 - 19:30
PLANT-BASED COOKING DEMO – PLANT-BASED RECIPES FOR A BUDGET

Join us for a virtual cooking demo by Vicki Brett-Gach and Michele Gallo.

Recipes – https://docs.google.com/document/d/17lwpz0nZ4XwnKoAAwGpmuBmfqSgn1JLha-NsoP3W3-g/edit?usp=sharing

Join Zoom Meeting – https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81932706772

Vicki Brett-Gach is a Certified Personal Chef, Master-Certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach, and Plant-Based Culinary Instructor, and is the author of “The Plant-Based for Life Cookbook: Deliciously Simple Recipes to Nourish, Comfort, Energize and Renew.”
Vicki is a graduate of Dr. McDougall’s Starch Solution Certification program and is Forks Over Knives Plant-Based Certified. Vicki is trained in Nutrition for a Healthy Heart, and in Dietary Therapy for Reversing Common Diseases, and holds certificates in Plant-Based Nutrition (through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies), in Wellness Counseling (through Cornell University), and in Culinary Coaching (through Harvard Medical School and The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine). As a coach, Vicki works with individual clients, often helping them reverse health challenges and chronic conditions, and teaches whole food plant-based cooking classes to groups of all sizes, with a focus on helping people learn how to make eating healthy EASY.
Vicki is the creator of the Ann Arbor Vegan Kitchen blog, and her recipes have been featured in The McDougall Newsletter, Center For Nutrition Studies Newsletter, and multiple magazines and cookbooks. Stay connected with Vicki at AnnArborVeganKitchen.com, for new recipes as soon as they are published, and for additional details about her new cookbook.
Michele Gallo is a Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Certified Plant-Based Professional, ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist, and Whole Food Plant-based Culinary Instructor. She is certified in Holistic Nutrition and holds certificates in Culinary Coaching from Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Lifestyle Medicine, ACLM Lifestyle Medicine for Coaches, T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies in Plant-Based Nutrition, and is Forks Over Knives Plant-Based Certified. She is a Conference Coordinator for the non-profit Plant-Based Prevention Of Disease.

PLANT-BASED FOOD GIVEAWAY AT OAKLAND UNIVERSITY
2023-03-11 | Oakland University, MI, United States
PLANT-BASED FOOD GIVEAWAY AT OAKLAND UNIVERSITY
VegMichigan is partnering Chickpea & Bean to give out free bags full of delicious plant-based item to Oakland University students.

VEGAN FISH & CHIPS DINNER MEETUP AT THE OLD SHILLELAGH
2023-03-10 18:00 - 20:00
VEGAN FISH & CHIPS DINNER MEETUP AT THE OLD SHILLELAGH
Join us for a fun night out at The Old Shillelagh!
You can order from their large vegan menu or enjoy their vegan fish & chips special!
VegMichigan will also be raffling off some fun prizes!
Please arrive between 6 and 7 pm. We will be on the second floor.
There will be a live band starting at 8 pm if you would like to stay.
Each person/party will pay for their dinner and drinks separately.
We hope you can join us!
Please RSVP on the Metro Detroit Meetup Group

30-DAY PLEDGE PICKUP AT GRAND TRAVERSE AUDUBON CLUB
2023-03-10
30-DAY PLEDGE PICKUP AT GRAND TRAVERSE AUDUBON CLUB
VegMichigan will have a pickup of our 30-Day Pledge bags for the Grand Traverse Audubon Club.

GROWING A GARDEN: A PATH TO PHYSICAL & MENTAL WELL-BEING (VIRTUAL PRESENTATION)
2023-03-07 19:00 - 20:00
GROWING A GARDEN: A PATH TO PHYSICAL & MENTAL WELL-BEING
This presentation will inspire you to start your own garden this spring!
This is for anyone who is interested in starting a garden and learning how gardening can help improve your physical and mental well-being.
Presenters: Matt and Deanna Tregoning are the former owners of Sol to Seed Farm in WA State. They previously farmed on 5 acres and sold produce at Farmers Markets and through a community-supported agriculture program. They continue to grow food on a much smaller scale for themselves and family.
Matt also has a YouTube channel focused on gardening where he provides education on growing a successful garden from Spring through fall. Deanna is a nurse practitioner specializing in cardiovascular disease. She is interested in disease prevention and progression with a focus on dietary changes to improve health. She promotes Mediterranean and plant-based eating plans and provides education through recipes, meal planning, and cooking demonstrations on ways to incorporate healthy meals as part of your everyday diet.
Topic: Growing a Garden: A Path to Physical & Mental Well-Being
Time: Mar 7, 2023 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89451918647

TRAVERSE CITY MEETUP AT EDSON FARMS
2023-03-01 11:00 - 13:00 | 835 S Garfield Ave, Traverse City, MI 49686
TRAVERSE CITY MEETUP AT EDSON FARMS
Please join us for our monthly Traverse City meetup!
Vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores are all welcome. We have fun conversations about food and life.
Hope to see you there!
Edson Farms is located at 835 S Garfield Ave, Traverse City, MI 49686

30-DAY PLEDGE PICKUP AT SEEDS ECOLOGY & EDUCATION CENTER
2023-03-01
30-DAY PLEDGE PICKUP AT SEEDS ECOLOGY & EDUCATION CENTER
VegMichigan will be giving out 30-Day Pledge bags at SEEDS Ecology & Education Center.

30-DAY PLEDGE PICKUP AT THE NOVI LIBRARY
2023-03-01
30-DAY PLEDGE PICKUP AT THE NOVI LIBRARY
VegMichigan will be giving out pledge bags to Novi Library patrons who signed up for our 30-Day Pledge Program.

VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB Q&A WITH CO-AUTHOR OF THINK LIKE A VEGAN
2023-02-26 13:00 - 14:30
VIRTUAL BOOK CLUB Q&A WITH CO-AUTHOR OF THINK LIKE A VEGAN
For our February Book Club, we are pleased to be joined by Emilia A. Leese, co-author of Think Like a Vegan: What Everyone Can Learn from Vegan Ethics (co-written by Eva J. Charalambides, 2021). We had planned to discuss chapters 1-3, but now that an author will be joining us, we will spend most of the time talking with her about the book. Please send questions for her in advance to jeri@vegmichigan.org, or bring them with you to the discussion. Please try to read at least some of the book before the meeting. The Book Club will discuss the book further at our May meeting (date TBD).
Book description: “What is animal agriculture, and what is its impact on the environment? … What’s the problem with organic meat? What are the economics of plant-based foods? What about honey? … What is the relationship between veganism and feminism? … From basic fairness to politics, economics, love and other aspects of being human, Think Like a Vegan invites the reader to set aside their preconceived notions about veganism, and to enter into an invigorating conversation about your daily ethical decisions.” (from the cover)
The Book Club is a collaboration between Attorneys for Animals and VegMichigan. Please register for the Zoom meeting at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkduqupzovGdxjoWKPSBd6JoY2s2sQF-2H. After you register, you will get an email from Zoom with the link for the meeting.
We hope you can join us!

EASY AND DELICIOUS PLANT-BASED COOKING DEMO
2023-02-22 18:30 - 19:30
EASY AND DELICIOUS PLANT-BASED COOKING DEMO

Join us online for a virtual, plant-based cooking demo from Vicki Brett-Gach and Michelle Gallo.

RECIPES – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ECBOO4CQQFnBfCg4qBl9hAvele2A2qWhdlEluAoKCCc/edit?usp=sharing
Register to attend virtually – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMoc-igqzgvGNPgGmx_HrMk7krPYZJquQky

Vicki Brett-Gach is a Certified Personal Chef, Master-Certified Vegan Lifestyle Coach, and Plant-Based Culinary Instructor, and is the author of “The Plant-Based for Life Cookbook: Deliciously Simple Recipes to Nourish, Comfort, Energize and Renew.”
Vicki is a graduate of Dr. McDougall’s Starch Solution Certification program and is Forks Over Knives Plant-Based Certified. Vicki is trained in Nutrition for a Healthy Heart, and in Dietary Therapy for Reversing Common Diseases, and holds certificates in Plant-Based Nutrition (through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies), in Wellness Counseling (through Cornell University), and in Culinary Coaching (through Harvard Medical School and The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine). As a coach, Vicki works with individual clients, often helping them reverse health challenges and chronic conditions, and teaches whole food plant-based cooking classes to groups of all sizes, with a focus on helping people learn how to make eating healthy EASY.
Vicki is the creator of the Ann Arbor Vegan Kitchen blog, and her recipes have been featured in The McDougall Newsletter, Center For Nutrition Studies Newsletter, and multiple magazines and cookbooks. Stay connected with Vicki at AnnArborVeganKitchen.com, for new recipes as soon as they are published, and for additional details about her new cookbook.
Michele Gallo is a Certified Health and Wellness Coach, Certified Plant-Based Professional, ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist, and Whole Food Plant-based Culinary Instructor. She is certified in Holistic Nutrition and holds certificates in Culinary Coaching from Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Lifestyle Medicine, ACLM Lifestyle Medicine for Coaches, T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies in Plant-Based Nutrition, and is Forks Over Knives Plant-Based Certified. She is a Conference Coordinator for the non-profit Plant-Based Prevention Of Disease.

VEGAN FOOD GIVEAWAY WITH CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES
2023-02-22 | Child & Family Services
Child & Family Services in Traverse City will be picking up their bags full of popular plant-based items. Note: you must have signed up in advance to pick up a bag.

VEGAN FOOD SAMPLING
2023-02-21 12:30 - 14:00, 2023-02-16 12:30 - 14:00 | Wayne State University
VegMichigan will be passing out Panda Express Beyond Orange Chicken samples to Wayne State students in the student union.

MEETUP AT Go Ice Cream In YpsIlantI
2023-02-18 14:00 - 16:00
MEETUP AT GO ICE CREAM IN YPSILANTI
Go Ice Cream in Ypsilanti, has some of the best vegan sorbet that is out of this world. Now, I know I said ice cream, but trust me, the chocolate sorbet is so rich, decadent, luscious and dreamy, you won’t even realize it’s not ice cream. I know from personal experience! Following is a list of the vegan treats that will be available:

Choco-Taco: waffle cone taco shell filled with dark chocolate sorbet and topped with chocolate shell, cacao nibs, chipotle, cinnamon and sea salt. Vegan and gluten free.
Sundae: waffle cone bowl filled with Chocolate sorbet topped with a variety of vegan toppings to choose from. Vegan.
Pints to go: chocolate sorbet

Join us to support another local business that offers vegan options by signing up now! We hope to see you there!
***Ypsi has some great restaurants with vegan choices if you’re looking to grab a bite before or after: Bobcat Bonnies, Corner Brewery, The Wurst Bar, Sidetracks, Maiz Mexican Cantina, Thompson and Co. and others.

FACTORY FARMING PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS WITH LYNN HENNING (Virtual Presentation)
2023-02-09 19:00 - 20:15
FACTORY FARMING PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS IN MICHIGAN WITH LYNN HENNING
VegMichigan’s focus is to promote a plant-based diet but factory farming is a growing problem in Michigan and it is important that we also work on this issue to help better regulate and hopefully, one day, end factory farming in Michigan.
Lynn Henning is the Field Operations Team Director for the Socially Responsible Agricultural Project. Lynn emerged as a leading voice calling on state and federal authorities to hold livestock factory farms accountable to water and air quality laws. With her husband, she farms 300 acres in Lenawee County, Michigan, within 10 miles of 12 CAFOs. As a result of her work to stop pollution from factory farms and to hold state and federal agencies accountable to enforcing laws, Lynn won the 2010 Goldman Environmental Prize—the environmental equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Please join us for this important presentation to learn more and, if you are interested, you can join VegMichgan’s factory farming workgroup.
Join Zoom Meeting (no need to register): https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84517784029

TRAVERSE CITY MEETUP
2023-02-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Edson Farms Natural Foods, 835 Garfield Ave, Traverse City
We are looking forward to our February MeetUp at Edson Farms Market & Deli! Vegetarians, vegans and omnivores are all welcome. We’re a new group, so come along and make new friends. This will be our second MeetUp in Traverse City. Please join the VegMichigan Traverse City Meetup group below and we hope to see you at an event soon!
https://www.meetup.com/traverse-city-vegmichigan-meetup/events/290721343/

Vegan Food Sampling
2023-01-30 12:30 - 14:00 | Wayne State University
VegMichigan will be passing out vegan samples at Wayne State University to students in the student center.

Factory FarmIng Volunteer MeetIng (VIrtual)
2023-01-26 18:00 - 19:00
If you are interested in potentially volunteering for VegMichigan’s factory farming initiative, please join us for a virtual Zoom meeting to learn more about the issue and we will also be discussing possible approaches to address the problem of factory farming in Michigan.
Join Zoom Meeting (no reservation required) https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82011081392

30-DAY PLEDGE: UOFM SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY STAFF
2023-01-18
30-DAY PLEDGE: UOFM SCHOOL FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY STAFF
30-Day Pledge Giveaway for the U of M School for the Environment and Sustainability Staff.
