January 2, 2018

Planetary Coffee: Short Days, New Ventures

Anticipating the coming new year always feels both exciting and a bit daunting to me. The changing over of the calendar year is often a transitional time. It…

December 4, 2017

Local Gift Ideas

Looking for a way to shop local this holiday season? Check out our holiday gift guide and support Michigan producers and growers this season.

November 8, 2017

The Daily Grind: Superior Coffee Roasting Co.

Superior Coffee Roasting Co. was formed both at the right time and the right place for the Eastern U.P.  Ron Kurnik, the President of the company saw an apparent void…

November 8, 2017

FEAST – Food Entrepreneur Accelerator and Start Up Terminal – To Launch in Inkster

DETROIT – OCT. 19, 2017 – A new initiative to help burgeoning Michigan food business entrepreneurs boost production and growth is set to begin. FEAST, LLC, which stands…

September 6, 2017

Brewery Wants Patrons to Drink Local, Think Global

Oxford brewery, HomeGrown, has joined an increasing number of businesses turning to their own backyard for ingredients. The locally-sourced movement has taken off – in the US and around the…

September 1, 2017

Capture Farming and Adventure, in a Bottle at Rove

The job of a farmer is never done. To do it well, they must think critically and instinctively to determine the vast number of influences a plant may…

July 31, 2017

Your Crepe Escape : Flint Crepe Company

Try these three favorite menu items at the Flint Crepe Co.!

July 28, 2017

The Art of Celebrating Food

Natural Northern Foods started in 2005 making a fresh salsa using only fresh ingredients, with no sugar added or preservatives, selling only at the Sara Hardy Farmers Market.

June 30, 2017

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…

June 6, 2017

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…