The Ice Wine Harvest video from Black Star Farms
Here’s a video from the 2007-2008 ice wine harvest put together by Leelanau.com and Black Star Farms. You can read more about their harvest and see some photos in The Ice Wine Cometh.
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Ridge
If you’re feeling anything like me today, you might enjoy a brief trip to a warmer place, perhaps just off the Sleeping Bear Point Trail. The photo is called “Ridge” and it was taken in September 2007 by Andy McFarlane. You can get it at wallpaper size right here.
New Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore management plan
The Leelanau Enterprise has a feature on the new Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore General Management Plan: Contained within a 300-page document that will outline how the National Park Service proposes to govern Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore for the next 20 or so years will be a compromise. Lakeshore assistant superintendent Tom Ulrich is […]
Leelanau Almanac for the Week of January 3-9, 2008
Skiing the Good Harbor Trail by Andy McFarlane News from the Week The week’s news was headlined by the most extreme January Thaw we’ve seen for a long time that featured THREE record high temperature readings and a record rainfall day thrown in as well. Other stories included guided Saturday snowshoeing in the Sleeping Bear […]
Leelanau Blogs: Why Leelanau? from the Leelanau Conservancy
The Leelanau Conservancy has launched a new blog called Why Leelanau?, about which they say: To celebrate our 20th Anniversary, we are asking everyone who loves Leelanau County to tell us why and to send in a photo that exemplifies what you love about this special peninsula. Why do you live or visit here? Why […]
January Thaw
From Sunday, January 6th when we set a record high of 51 degrees. We also set a record high yesterday of 50 and had a record high rainfall total of 1.12 inches for a January 7th. More on the January Thaw from Michigan in Pictures.
Concert Series features Peter Ostroushko, Greensky Bluegrass & Patchouli
In Bluegrass band kicks off FOFA concert series, the Leelanau Enterprise takes a look at the 2008 Friends of the Fine Arts (FOFA) concert series. FOFA provides support for arts activities at Suttons Bay Public Schools, and their 2008 lineup looks spectacular! The series opens this Saturday (Jan 11) with 2006 Telluride Bluegrass Festival band […]
Leelanau snowmobile trail a hit
The Leelanau Enterprise reports that the snowmobile trail from Empire Airport to Maple City – Leelanau County’s only official trail – is in good shape this year and drawing praise from riders. Florian Czerniak of the Cedar Hilltoppers Snowmobile Club (the group that established the trail in 2000) explained that the trail fits into Michigan’s […]
Snowshoe or ski the Sleeping Bear Dunes
The Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore offers guided snowshoe hikes every Saturday during January and February. Hikes begin at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center on Highway M-72 at the edge of the village of Empire at at 1 PM and you can call the Visitor Center at 231-326-5134, ext. 328 to make a reservation […]
Leelanau Almanac for the Week of December 27, 2007 – January 2, 2008
“Race you to the barn!” by Bean in Sylvan Lake News from the Week Not much news this week other than a report on the 2007 Farm Bill that sounds like good news for Leelanau farmers as we were taking a break for most of the week. The Week’s Weather We had a good deal […]
2007 Farm Bill has lots for Leelanau farmers
The Enterprise reports that the 2007 Farm Bill, which appears headed for passage by the Federal Government in January, streamlines the cumbersome process for farmers to receive federal money for selling development rights on their property to local governments and non-governmental organizations and has additional provisions for specialty crops like cherries, wine grapes, asparagus and […]
Leelanau Almanac for the Week of December 21-27, 2007
Dick’s Pour House by John Levanen The Almanac took a break for the holiday season but you can get all the weather data for late December in Leelanau from Weather Underground. Click for the Leelanau news archive from December 2006!