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.

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!!
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.

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.

Smells like Pure Michigan to me

NPR shares that Pure Michigan has a new partnership to develop fragrances inspired by some of the signature scents of Michigan including its beaches, flowers and vineyards.
Twilight in a Sunflower Field by Neil Weaver Photography

Suttons Bay Sunflower Sunset

Beautiful twilight shot of a sunflower field near Suttons Bay.

2025 Leelanau Farmers Markets Summer Schedule

If you're looking to add some local food & farm products to your life, all five Leelanau Farmers Markets are in full swing for the summer!
Ripening Redcurrants by Mark Smith

Ripening Redcurrants

A glowing shot from Mark's garden. He says that the robins love to eat them!
2025 Strawberries by Bardenhagen Berries Farm

2025 Leelanau Strawberry Season is underway!

Our friends at the Bardenhagen Berries Farm share on their Facebook page that although it seems like taken forever for their fields to ripen up, they are finally READY TO GO!!