All my letters from Katherine are full of wonderfully quirky things, but this one is special. Katherine writes: This is to announce the Grand Opening of our new Farm Stand and Co-op this coming Saturday, July 17th, noon till 4… We will show you around the naturally grown gardens of which there are 3 large […]
Before I ring the bell, I always stop to admire the view. I was back at Bob Haack’s chestnut orchard on Friday morning, catching up on progress and trying to keep the Fundamentals of Chestnut Husbandry straight. (Bob, you will recall, is a Forest Entomologist at the day job and a Chestnut Grower at home.) You would think […]
It was an odd winter, an even odder spring, and who knows what summer will bring? Still, this is a great weekend to load the kids in the car and head out to pick the fine fruit of Antrim County. I was over at King Orchards on M-88 on Wednesday taking pictures. The new little […]
Yesterday the Edwards kids (Katy, RT and Mary Ellen) invited me to go to the Michigan Land Use Institute fundraiser, Taste the Local Difference. The ride down was very entertaining, and you can look forward to a post or two about some cats named Pumpkin, Tofu and Miso. Very appropriate, considering that we were headed […]
I was out and about on Monday and noticed that Ryan Romeyn was busy working on the new farmstand at Providence Farm. I stopped to ask him when they would have produce for sale and he laughed. Well, he said, come here and look at this. He had just put the first eight quarts of […]
There were many things to see and do at the Petoskey Stone Festival, and you can see a complete slideshow at this link, but I confess I was particularly taken with Bubba’s Bar BQ. I decided it really needed its own post. Bubba, who hails from Wolverine, has perfected the Art of Michigan Festival Fare. […]
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