Leelanau County, Benzie County & Traverse City Area Food Resources

Resources to help family, friends & neighbors in Northwest Michigan get through the chaos caused by a lapse in SNAP benefit funding.
Leland State Soccer Championships by Hemlut Goral

Leland Comets headed to Class D Soccer Championships!

Leland boys soccer (15-8-2) will be competing for a state championship after the Comets defeated Grandville Calvin Christian yesterday!

Double Rainbow in Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore!

The current lake-effect rain shower situation is perfect for rainbows.
Pretty Straight by Mark Smith

Leelanau Fall Color is Straight Ahead!

Mark Smith shared this absolute banger of fall photo from a vineyard in deepest Leelanau County with fall colors at their peak & grapes galore!!
At the End of the Trail by James Banks

Happy 55th Birthday to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore!

Today is the 55th birthday of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Stormin No More by Trish P

Does Great Lakes commercial fishing need to die?

A wide-ranging look at years of decline in whitefish and other Great Lakes species in Lake Michigan & Lake Huron.
Susan & Brian Price, Ed & Bobbie Collins, and Leelanau Conservancy director Tom Nelson

Farewell to Ed Collins, a champion for Leelanau

Remembering one of the Leelanau Conservancy's founders on his passing.

Don’t forget about Leelanau’s Black Bears during Fat Bear Week!

While neither Leelanau County nor Michigan has brown bears, our native black bear population is out there in the woods right now, actively searching for the raw materials to pack on the pounds

Fall Color on M-22

Ten years ago I featured this photo from Craig of M-22 south of Leland on my Michigan in Pictures Facebook.

Leelanau Uncaged ~ Last Saturday in September in Northport!

Celebrate creativity in all its forms with musical performers, dancers, artists, and food vendors in a daylong celebration of art & music with something for every age & taste!!
Ride the Calm by Renee Kaufmann

Ride the Calm to September’s Beauty

Renee Kaufman reminds us that September has turned up the beauty meter with sunshine, warmth and calm waters.

Jeff Lamb’s Leelanau Fall

On mornings like this when fall is touching the tips of the leaves, I like to remember photographer & friend Jeff Lamb who passed on fourteen years ago.