Northern Michigan farmers Nic Welty (Black Star Farms) and Jenny Tutlis & John Watts (Meadowlark Farm) got some national play in Farmers go low-tech to grow in winter on the public radio program Marketplace. A hoop house is little more than big sheets of plastic stretched covered-wagon-style over a series of metal arches. As the […]
Last week our This Week in Leelanau email featured a special Valentine’s Day offer from Grocer’s Daughter Chocolates. We offered one of Mimi’s tasty Valentine Heart Boxes to two lucky readers containing two orange truffles, two lavender, two pomegranate, two raspberry hearts, one honey and two berry caramels. We got a lot of great letters […]
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful. Welcome it in every face, in every sky, in every flower. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson This week’s photos were submitted by The Anonymous Photographer who notes that a phenomenon knows as “guerilla knitting” has arrived in Suttons Bay. Practitioners knit around objects and often leave […]
The annual Empire Winterfest will be held next weekend (Feb 13-15). On Friday night there’s Candlelight Ice Skating on South Bar Lake with bonfire, hot chocolate, free hot dogs courtesy of Deerings Market (6 PM) and a pool tournament at the Village Inn (7:30). Saturday features kids games at South Bar Lake (12-1 PM) followed […]
you can see whaleback by {D} News from the Week In addition to a Valentines concert with Breathe Owl Breathe, the Cherry Capital Winter Wonderfest and the new Empire Museum History Nights, we had a cool photo of Fishtown “Through the Viewfinder” and a report that the 2009 Tour de Leelanau bike race has been […]
The Empire Area Museum will be conducting a series of history nights over the next several Wednesdays at the Empire Township Hall. Each “Big Screen Video” will begin at 7:30 PM and last about one hour. They start TONIGHT and the dates are Feb. 4th, 11th, 18th and March 4th and 11th. The programs will […]
The Third Annual Cherry Capital Winter WonderFest is a four-day outdoor winter festival that takes place February 13-16, 2009. Admission to the majority of festival activities requires the purchase of a $10 festival button with a portion of the proceeds being given to Special Olympics Michigan (kids 10 and under are free). Some highlights: Live […]
Cycling magazine Velo News reports: “Current economic realities” have caused Michigan-based health insurance company Priority Health to pull its sponsorship of three major midwestern races, and at least one of the events has canceled its 2009 edition. Tour de Leelanau race director Steven Brown informed the Union Cyclist Internationale (UCI) on Friday that it was […]
Jenny reminds you that penguins are notoriously bad drivers. Though she doesn’t live in Leelanau, she has some cool photos from Leland and other places in the area. Unfortunately, Flickr is failing to recognize that so you’ll just have to trust me on that one.
The Old Art Building in Leland will host a special concert (with chocolates!) at 8 PM on Valentine’s Day (Feb 14) with Breathe Owl Breathe. The trio of Micah Middaugh, Andréa Moreno-Beals, and Trevor Hobbs weave songs that are simultaneously playful and thoughtful, simple and intricate. Their layering of guitar, cello, banjo, drum set and […]
North Beach 1/5/09 by Halley News from the Week This week we had a feature from the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore about their Saturday snowshoeing in the park. There was also a nice Points North interview with 3 Sutherland brothers from IPR, a look at this weekend’s Winter Wine & Vine Experience at the […]
The annual Glen Arbor Winterfest takes place on Saturday, February 14, 2009. It features a Chili Cookoff at Boone Docks Deck in Glen Arbor (from 12 Noon until the chili is gone) and a perch fishing contest on Glen Lake sponsored by The Sportsman Shop (starting at 7 AM). The event is sponsored by the […]