Back-to-School Reading List: Staff Picks
Taste the Local Difference’s team of local food lovers include their favorite books in this ‘Staff Picks’ list.
4 Ways For You and I to Say No to Monocultures
Picture a banana. Can you see it in your mind’s eye? Yellow, green, maybe a beautiful ripe brown, ready to be flambeed, or maybe you’re even picturing it…
A Word on Waste: Part IV
This article is part of a four-part series on buying, storing, preserving and composting foods to prevent waste There is no ‘away’ to throw things. When food ends…
Combating Climate Change: Creating Climate-resilient Orchards
In my previous post of this Climate Change series, (see the first and second post here), I discussed how tree fruit growers in Michigan are faced with adapting to…
A New Normal for Michigan Orchards
This is the second post of a three-part series. Before reading this, make sure you read the first post of the series here! To quickly recap, in the…
How will Climate Change Impact Michigan’s Fruit Orchards?
There has been a lot of discussion in recent years about how climate change in going to impact agriculture. The Midwest has been characterized by increasing average temperatures,…