Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

Who needs days off!? Duncan Crew will show up and demo anywhere the love flows regardless if it is planned or not. Mondays on this tour are typically designed to be travel days. We have been taking the time to leisurely get to our next big city and check into a hotel but, today we decided that rest is for the less awesome.

We got a chance to be a part of a seminar at Kalamazoo College on the subject of “The Psychology of Creativity”. If you know a little about the crew we have on this tour, you know that this crew is the perfect discussion subjects for that course. We were invited by Professor Siu-Lan Tan and it was a sheer pleasure. It is a hip and different experience to discuss what it is that we do on a high academic level in a panel discussion format. The students were charming and engaging and they were the types to take full advantage of the chance to engage us in conversation and learn from it.

As it turns out, Kalamazoo College is the oldest educational institution in Michigan, being established in 1833. Thus, this detour was the perfect place to visit on the Heritage Tour. A huge thanks goes out to the class and college for having us in their midst to speak with and learn from them. It was a fantastic experience for sure.

Of course, since we were back in the Kalamazoo area for part of the day, we couldn’t pass up a chance to spend some quality time with Uncle Danny and we had the best meal we have yet seen on this tour. If you are in the area, check out Food Dance. The name alone screams “Holy Cow This Is Awesome!” 

Edison project's student-run greenhouse grows fresh produce for local restaurant

Edison Environmental Science Academy students are turning fresh produce into profits after forging a business partnership with Kalamazoo’s Food Dance Cafe.

Since December, Edison’s garden club has supplied the local restaurant with fresh arugula, parsley, dill and basil, all planted and tended by students through the magnet school’s environmental economics curriculum, said Matthew Johnson, Edison teacher and garden club advisor.

Food Dance Cafe owner Julie Stanley — herself a former elementary school teacher — said the students’ business venture not only offers products at competitive prices but supports the restaurant’s longstanding mission to work with local providers. Read full story

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