TLD Announces Harvest Haiku Challenge
Date: October 1, 2016 Contact: Bill Palladino, [email protected] (231)590-1685 Harvest Haiku Challenge Launched in Northern Michigan
Washtenaw County’s First Meet-the-Buyers Event: The next step in strengthening our local food economy
Did you know that Washtenaw County has a food policy council? You may be asking yourself, what is food policy and why is it important to our community?…
Garlic Lovers Unite!: 3rd Annual Crosshatch Garlic Auction
The Third Annual Crosshatch Garlic Auction is just around the corner. This annual event serves two very important purposes: to fundraise for Crosshatch’s sustainable food & farming programming…
A Healthy Community is Growing at the Ypsilanti Farmers MarketPlace
Growing Hope’s Tuesday afternoon farmers market — held at their still-under-development Ypsilanti Farmers MarketPlace at 16 S. Washington Street in Downtown Ypsi — is moving indoors for the…
The 2016 Guide to Local Food in NMI is here
Over the last year, Taste the Local Difference® has added a lot of new territory to our service area. For the first time ever we are including all…
Homemade for the Holidays
The holiday buzz is here— covered in tinsel and flooding your inbox with cyber sales. But a look past the shiny, brash exterior reveals an activity at the…
Local Food—Relationships Required
Timothy Young, founder and chef of Food for Thought in Honor, has the same responsibilities and worries as most business leaders. But when it comes to managing relationships…
Embrace Imperfect Produce
The storm that tore across Leelanau and Grand Traverse counties last month uprooted trees and damaged homes. But it also beat up a lot of locally grown produce,…
Interested in Food Preservation?
We’re giving away a chance to have fun and learn. That’s right, you heard me! You have a chance to attend a free class of your choice with ISLAND’s…
Is Local Food just a Trend?
**This column originally appeared in the July 11, 2015, edition of the Traverse City Record-Eagle. When people ask me if the Local Food Movement is just a trend,…