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Starting a Home Food Garden from Scratch

Next, Wednesday, April 21, 2010 from 6:30?8:00 PM the Northwest Michigan Horticulture Research Station will host the first event in their “Green Garden” series, Starting a Home Food Garden from Scratch. This session, intended for beginning gardeners, will cover the basics of getting a home food garden started. Bring your ideas for what you’d like […]

The Northport Sportsmen's Club has back to back events

This Saturday, April 24, the opening day of trout season, the Northport Sportsmen Club sponsors a fishing derby at the Old Mill Pond in Northport. Fishing is reserved for children, with parents helping them. The club will have two tents overlooking the millpond – one with hot dogs and the other with prizes such as […]

Taste of Grand Traverse – Sunday, April 18

The Women’s Resource Center (WRC) is proud to announce its biggest fundraiser of the year; Taste of Grand Traverse! Taste of Grand Traverse is a food and beverage tasting event, much like Taste of Chicago or Taste of Cincinnati, only on a much smaller scale. Approximately 19 restaurants and 5 beverage companies will be offering […]

Leelanau Almanac: Week of April 8 – 14

Well Spring has sprung in northern Michigan, maybe a little too soon? We will still get the cherry blossom, but the early spring means early buds, and the cancelation of Cherry blossom tour. Another welcome sign of spring in norther Michigan is the opening our the beloved Cheese shanty in Fishtown. I don’t know about […]

Cherry blossom tour canceled

From: Alan Campbell, on behalf of the Leelanau Conservancy, Leelanau Conservation District and the Leelanau Enterprise. We are forced to cancel the 2010 Cherry Blossoms tour. The reason is that Cherry Blossoms will arrive in Leelanau County much sooner than anyone could have realistically planned for. We have very few options excluding trying to move […]

Cheese shanty opens Friday

We look for certain signs of spring in Leelanau. But one of the biggest signs that Spring is here, is the opening of the Cheese Shanty in Fishtown. So Friday, head over and grab your first North Shore of the season! Photo credit: Opening Day at The Cheese Shanty. Hooray! by Trish Petrat

Traverse City/Leelanau area #1 as a foodie haven!

Livability, which touts America’s most livable cities and explore the best places to live, work and play picked their list of 10 Surprising Food Cities. At the top of the list was a photo of a Leelanau winery and… 1. Traverse City, MI Known as the Cherry Capital of the World, the Lake Michigan resort […]

100% Renewable Energy? Northport is the little town that thinks it can

Can Northport be fully powered by renewable engery?  A group in Northport seem to think so.  The Northern Express reports: The two medium-sized wind turbines will generate approximately 800,000 kilowatt hours per year. They won’t completely power the village, but they will generate enough electricity to power the town’s new waste water treatment plant and […]

Leelanau Almanac: Week of March 25 – 31

Photo credit: Glen Haven Beach, MI, July, 2005 by Tom Powell I didn’t realize this picture was a summer picture until I already posted it. Instead of changing it, I thought I’d leave it, and let us have a little summer dreaming. With Spring Break happening in Leelanau, we had a slow news week. However, […]