NORTHERN HARVEST: TWENTY MICHIGAN WOMEN IN FOOD AND FARMING https://www.wsupress.wayne.edu/books/detail/northern-harvest MIMI WHEELER Born on the small island of Morso in Denmark to parents who ran a small grocery store to serve their community, Mimi told me, “I loved the community of people. . . . I knew that when I started my business I wanted to create a community coming to my little store so people would meet each other and have face-to-face contact. . . " In this moment of social distancing, we all yearn for that sense of community and that contact, and it’s slowly returning as the virus abates. From childhood Mimi valued home-cooked food. “I think I’ve always been a little bit of a foodie.” She moved to Michigan with her American husband in 1980 and for many years followed her passion for community with a career in social work. “Throughout these years I had this dream of starting my own busin...
Book author Emita Brady Hill's thoughts, memories, and discussions of her books: Northern Harvest, Bronx Faces and Voices, and her travels to the Texas Mexico border to help and cook for the migrant asylum seekers.