Archive for category: Food & Dining

Our main food & dining section has articles and links for restaurants, taverns and cafes and also food products & producers, farms, markets, bakeries and other culinary delights in Leelanau, Traverse City & Northern Michigan.

Cherries are good. Data centers? Not so much

We are rightfully famous for our cherries. Here's hoping we don't become famous for our water fueled datacenters!

Fairy Tale Garden

Mark shared a great picture of a delicate little variety of eggplant growing in his garden, called "Fairy Tale".

Cherry Time in Leelanau!

Today seems like a perfect day to sit inside & eat locally grown cherries!
Red Shed on Herman Road

Leelanau Cherry Blossom Report

We'll use this page to update you the state of cherry blossoms in Leelanau!
First Harvest by Mark Smith

May 19th means asparagus in Leelanau!

Mark shared this delicious looking basket yesterday.

The tiny kestrel is patrolling Leelanau’s cherry orchards!

MyNorth shares that northern Michigan cherry farmers are turning to the tiny American kestrel to protect orchards from pests.

2026 Leelanau Cherry Blossom Update

We've been getting a lot of questions about the state of cherry blossoms on the Leelanau Peninsula.

Cut to Federal H-2A minimum wage could have serious impacts on local agriculture

The Betsie Current has a timely & engaging story from Claire Keenan-Kurgan on a dramatic cut to the minimum wage for workers on H-2A visas & fears it could upend local farms & farmers.

Celebrate Galentines Day in Glen Arbor

The businesses of Glen Arbor invite you to grab your friends & join them this Saturday, February 7 for Galentine's Day in Glen Arbor featuring shopping, winter adventures, and sweet treats and sips.
Peace Before The War by Mark Miller

Saturday is Opening Day of Deer Season in Leelanau!

Opening Day is Michigan's largest unofficial holiday, and provides a big chunk of the $2.3 billion dollars that hunting in Michigan brings in.

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.
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!!