Join VegMichigan for food, games, music, dancing, and a lot of fun! Vegano Italiano, Cinnaholic, and a few other of your favorite vendors will be on hand, plus VegMichigan will be spinning songs everyone loves. Come connect with old friends, roast a s'more at the bonfire, and enjoy a fun fall night. Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 11 (5pm-9pm) at Riley Park in Downtown Farmington. Click for more details.

VegMichigan is excited to have a recipe by Kim Korona, Program Manager, featured in the City of Ann Arbor's A²ZERO Community Cookbook, which will be available at the Local Food Festival on August 28 from 5pm-8pm! In addition to Kim's Not Too Hot Chili recipe, VegMichigan provided plant-based tips and guidelines throughout the cookbook, demonstrating ways to modify other recipes to make them plant-based. A special thank you to volunteers Val, Nicola, and Maryann, who contributed helpful tips! For more info on Ann Arbor's Local Food Festival, click here.

You’re invited to our next Michiganders for a Just Farming System virtual meeting on Monday, August 11, at 6pm. Our special guest speakers will be Dan Raichel and Lena Freij from the Pollinators and Pesticides team at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Dan and Lena will explain the science behind the threats posed by neonicotinoid pesticides, AKA “neonics,” to pollinators, biodiversity, and our own health, as well as neonics’ surprising prevalence in our environment— and our bodies. We hope you can join us. Please register in advance here.

Congratulations to the winners of last month's raffle! The answer was: Grilling Veggies. Lisa Murray won a gift card to Ale Mary's, Emily Ayers won a gift card to Juicy Kitchen, and Laura Ringlein won a gift card to Love's Ice Cream. For this month's raffle, you'll have a chance to win a $25 e-gift card to:



Miss Kim (Ann Arbor)

Pie Sci Pizza (Detroit or Oak Park)

VEG-N (Okemos)

To enter the raffle, solve the word scramble below and submit your answer using this form. Winners will be announced in the September newsletter and contacted via email early next month. Good luck!

Congratulations to longtime VegFest vendor and friend of VegMichigan, Quiana "Que" Rice and her team, who will be competing on Season 18 of The Great Food Truck Race on Food Network! The 2-hour season premiere airs on Sunday, August 3, at 9pm. Watch Cooking with Que compete against 8 other food trucks from across the country for a chance to win $50,000. Read the MLive article here and be sure to check out The Kitchen by Cooking with Que in Detroit.

Did you know that VegMichigan's Meetup is a public page? This means you can view all of our events without a Meetup account. Once you decide to RSVP for an event you want to attend, you will need to create an account, which is free and simple to do! Click here to view all of our upcoming Meetups. To RSVP, simply create a Meetup account by using your email address and creating a password. You can also sign up to Meetup using a Facebook or Google account. Once you have an account, you can RSVP to events, connect with other members, and participate in discussions within the group. We hope to see you at a future Meetup!

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