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

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…

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 13, 2017

Don’t Forget, the ‘Farmers Market Brunch!’

Media Release For Immediate Release Date: June 13, 2017 Contact: Bailey Samp, [email protected] Don’t Forget, the ‘Farmers Market Brunch!’ TRAVERSE CITY – Summer is here and it’s peak…

June 7, 2017

Opening Time

The clocks don’t match exactly, but we know it’s time to unlock the doors when the first eager shoppers of the day are peeking in at the gleaming…

May 31, 2017

Return of the Red Drive Concert Series

Media Release For Immediate Release Date: May 22, 2017 Contact: Bailey Samp, [email protected] Return of the Red Drive Concert Series TRAVERSE CITY – The Village at Grand Traverse…

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February 5, 2017

On Being OF a Place

ON BEING OF A PLACE By Bill Palladino When people ask me where I’m from, I tell them without hesitation that I’m from the Bronx, New York. The…

January 9, 2017

Cookbook or rule book? Amical Opts Local

Amical has been open since 1994, but I first became truly conscious of the local food availability in the late 90’s. Amical started to take off when we…

December 1, 2016

Sowing Seeds for the Future: The Potential for a Food and Farming Housing Cooperative

A cooperative living community of farm workers, food service employees, culinary students, agri-business entrepreneurs, and other local food and farming partners could address the intersection of several problems…

October 31, 2016

Shop Local with Oleson’s Food Stores

Many people in northwest Lower Michigan hold the Oleson family name in high-regard. For some, it’s about the gifts the Oleson Family Foundation makes to local organizations; for…