Chef Courtland Nelson cracked nearly a dozen farm fresh eggs into a large stainless steel bowl, with dozens of eyes upon him. Cracking egg after egg, he showed the grace and agility of a man of precise skill and years of experience. Middle school students leaned in to...
Farmer Jim Schwantes almost didn’t come. But Schwantes, who grows vegetables north of Cedar, set aside his skepticism and ventured out on a snowy day last week to join nearly 30 other growers at the Northwest Michigan Horticultural Research Center, in Leelanau...
An excerpt of this story from February 13, 2012, appears in our September 2017 Farm to School report, “Healthy Kids, Thriving Farms”, which celebrates Groundwork’s 15 years of catalyzing the farm to school movement in northern Michigan.
Don Coe of Black Star Farms is a longtime supporter of Taste the Local Difference. He’s also the driving force behind Black Star Farms — a beautiful agricultural destination in Leelanau County. It is considered one of Northern Michigan’s prized attractions with two...
The unemployment numbers in Northwestern Lower Michigan remain high. In December, the counties covered by the Grand Vision saw unemployment rates as high as 13 percent in Benzie and 12.5 percent in Wexford. But anyone who lives in our rural communities of Northern...
January 23, 2012 Contact: Diane Conners, Senior Policy Specialist Michigan Land Use Institute Phone: 231-941-6584 ext. 16 Email: diane@mlui.org • Web site: www.localdifference.org TRAVERSE CITY—Farmers and local food distributors interested...