CSA Worksite Wellness: Find your match & improve employee health
It might be surprising to hear, but finding the perfect CSA Farm is a lot like choosing a love match.
Creating a Cafe & Building a Community
Breakaway Cafe just celebrated its first birthday, and as any parents of new babies would tell you – I’m exhausted. But as those same parents would tell you…
Cherry Everything
When you step into Benjamin Twiggs, you are greeted with the most heavenly aroma… locally roasted Cherry Vanilla Coffee… the coffee of the day. Your eyes are drawn…
Historic Manton Mill is Looking for a Partner
MAHRG is looking for a partner. The Manton Area Heritage Restoration Group (MAHRG) hopes to partner with a business in need of space.
Swapping animals, plants, seeds and ideas
A truck with a bed of chicks and rabbits pulled into the back of the Holmquist Feedmill in the small town of Trenary, in the rural central Upper…
Farmer 2 Farmer : Land for the Next Generation
The average age of farm operators in the United States is 58. In the next 20 years, an estimated 70 percent of privately owned agricultural land is expected…
Community Celebrates Earth Day by Expanding Local Food Production
Partridge Creek Farms is celebrating Earth Day on Saturday, April 22 by building 50 raised beds across downtown Ishpeming. But they aren’t doing it alone. More than 70…
Part Three: Making A Choice for Our Community
This is Part Three of a three-part series from farmer Brian Bates of Bear Creek Organic Farm in Petoskey, Michigan. This essay was delivered as part of his…
Eat Local for People, Planet, Economy
Where does your money go when you buy products from California or a major corporation?
Part Two: Scale and Perspective
Editor’s Note: This is Part Two of a three-part series from farmer Brian Bates of Bear Creek Organic Farm in Petoskey, Michigan. This essay was delivered as part…