Editor’s note: This story is part of Southwest Michigan Second Wave’s On the Ground Battle Creek series
BATTLE CREEK, MI — Devon Wilson is already a recognized leader in Battle Creek for his advocacy work and promotion of access to fresh, healthy food in the community. He runs Sunlight Gardens, an urban farmstead in the Washington Heights neighborhood, and Farmacy, a farm-to-table event space.
His participation in a leadership program offered through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has secured a space for him as a leader on the national and world stage through the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Community Leadership Network (CLN). He was among the most recent cohort of CLN Fellows from throughout the United States to participate in an 18-month program that exposed him to new ideas and opportunities…