Michele Hays

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Evanston, IL

Michele Hays joined Kickstarter on June 16, 2009

Food Chain by Team Food Chain

Our food is picked by the most exploited people in the US. It always has been. Can you stomach that or will you stop the cycle?
- Documentary
- New York, NY
- 123% funded $33,314 pledged
- 407 backers
Funded!
Stockbox Grocers: Good Food, Where you Live by Carrie Ferrence

Stockbox Grocers provides fresh produce and essential staples to those who don't currently have access to good food where they live.
- Food
- Seattle, WA
- 134% funded $20,129 pledged
- 195 backers
- Funded Sep 15, 2011
Funded!
Nice Cream Chicago by Kris Swanberg

Nice Cream is a seasonal ice cream handcrafted in Chicago, IL with fresh, local and organic ingredients.
- Food
- Chicago, IL
- 152% funded $7,626 pledged
- 237 backers
- Funded Oct 10, 2011
Funded!
The Feasts of Tre-mang by Eli Brown

The Feasts of Tre-mang is an ethnic cookbook based on a culture that doesn't exist--Real recipes from an imagined island.
- Publishing
- Alameda, CA
- 181% funded $10,882 pledged
- 219 backers
- Funded Apr 09, 2011
Funded!
"E-Dogz" Mobile Culinary Community Center by Eric May

E-Dogz is a mobile kitchen project that celebrates food as a catalyst for social interaction and investigates food relationships.
- Food
- Chicago, IL
- 111% funded $3,342 pledged
- 86 backers
- Funded Jan 28, 2011
Funded!
Frown Town - An Independent and Incredibly Awesome Puppet Show by Frown Town

Help buy a camera and fund the first episode of Frown Town, an independent puppet show about children, but most definitely not for them.
- Film & Video
- San Francisco, CA
- 151% funded $5,687 pledged
- 96 backers
- Funded Jul 16, 2010
Funded!
Soup and Bread: The Cookbook by Martha Bayne

A limited-edition cookbook of recipes from the winter 2009 season of Soup and Bread, a free weekly soup meal and fundraiser at the Hideout in Chicago.
- Nonfiction
- Chicago, IL
- 149% funded $4,496 pledged
- 103 backers
- Funded Nov 16, 2009
Funded!
Fruit Slinger: From farm to market by Daniel Shumski

I'm a food and travel writer who fell into a job with an orchard. Most days, it's one of the best things that's ever happened to...
- Journalism
- Chicago, IL
- 114% funded $1,090 pledged
- 30 backers
- Funded Jul 14, 2009

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Food Chain by Team Food Chain

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Nice Cream Chicago by Kris Swanberg

The Feasts of Tre-mang by Eli Brown

"E-Dogz" Mobile Culinary Community Center by Eric May

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