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Leelanau Cherry Blossom Report
Cherry blossoms are popping across the county!! We’ll use this page to update you the state of cherry blossoms in Leelanau!
2018 Leelanau 4th of July Calendar
Through a variety of sources including the Leelanau Chamber, Glen Arbor Sun and MichiganFireworks.com, we’ve come up with our Leelanau Fourth of July event listings. 4th of July in Glen Arbor July 3: Manitou Music Festival: Northport Community Band (7-8 PM) playing patriotic music on the Old Schoolhouse Lawn in downtown Glen Arbor. July 4: […]
Annual Cedar Polka Festival
The 2018 Cedar Polka Fest will be held Thursday, June 21 – Sunday, June 24, 2018. Highlights include a parade on Saturday, softball tournament, a polka mass and (of course) polka under the big, big tent with the big names of polka including Judy & Her Suchy Brothers, New Generation, New Brass Experience & Dyna Brass For […]
Empire Asparagus Festival – Third Weekend in May
The Annual Empire Asparagus Festival will be held this weekend (May 18-20, 2018) and features a slew of asparagus-themed events! Friday, May 18th 7-10 pm Live music from Jack Pine, Pig Roast & FISH BOIL! $5 Entrance & Dance to Jack Pine Old Fashioned Fish Boil $16 & Pulled Pork Sandwich with the fixings $12 […]
Sleeping Bear Dunes snowshoe hikes Saturdays AND Sundays this winter
Special Sunday ranger-led snowshoe hikes are being added to the program calendar at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) this winter! In addition to their regularly scheduled Saturday hikes (starting at the same time & location), snowshoe hikes will be offered on Sundays at 1:00 p.m. in January starting on the 14th. Meet at […]
Dune Climb Concert ~ Sunday July 9, 2017
Dune Climb Concert by Mark Smith The annual Manitou Music Festival Dune Climb concert takes place this Sunday, July 9 at 7 pm. The setting is the incomparable natural amphitheater of the Dune Climb at the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, and we heartily encourage you to join thousands of others at this free concert that has […]
The Bear of the Sleeping Bear Dunes
via today’s Michigan in Pictures… Glen Haven MI Sleeping Bear Dunes, photo by Don…The UpNorth Memories Guy… Harrison Tuesday was the 44th anniversary of the founding of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. You may have heard the Chippewa tale that inspired the name of the park: “Long ago, along the Wisconsin shoreline, a mother bear and […]
Suttons Bay Art Festival
The annual Suttons Bay Art Festival takes place every year at Marina Park in Suttons Bay on the first weekend of August (August 6-7, 2016). One hundred artists along with community groups, food vendors and a children’s area are on hand from 10-6 Saturday and 10-5 on Sunday. There’s also a Sunday mornin a pancake […]
Grace Dickinson and five more Leelanau Women Photographers
Via Michigan in Pictures… This week’s Glen Arbor Sun has a great feature by Kathleen Stocking on Six Leelanau County Women Photographers: Barbara Nowinski, Kathleen (Dodge) Buhler, Meggen Watt Peterson, Ashmir McCarthy, Marty Schilling and Grace Dickinson. Here’s Grace: Grace Dickinson has a photo studio across the road from the place her grandparents first came to […]
Frosted: May 20th freeze takes toll on cherries, vineyards
The Traverse City Ticker has a report on the state of the area’s orchards & vineyards. While it’s not great, it’s certainly better than last year: Northern Michigan’s cherry crop appears to have taken a 40-60 percent hit thanks to an unexpected late freeze last month, and the news for local grapes and apples might […]
Wild Leeks in Leelanau!
Here’s some of a Wild Leek feature originally published on eatdrinkTC.com. You often find these oniony treasures when you’re morel hunting. Leeks are in the woods right now, and we’ve heard reports of MORELS out there as well!! Wild Leeks by CherryCapitalFoods Whether you know them as ramps, wild leeks, spring onions or by their scientific name of […]