Articles tagged: locavore
with video: At Selma Cafe, from farm to table and back again
Posted: May 02, 2012Selma Cafe is more than just a delicious Friday breakfast at the Ann Arbor home of Lisa Gottlieb and Jeff McCabe. Watch the video below to find out how this small cafe addresses big ideas ... Read more »
video: Ann Arbor's Cara Rosaen from Real Time Farms featured in TEDx Manhattan event
Posted: Feb 09, 2012Ann Arbor's Cara Rosaen speaks about using crowd-sourcing to document our food system at a TEDx event in Manhattan. Cara Rosaen, co-founder of Ann Arbor's Real Time Farms, was recently in Manhattan for a TEDx ... Read more »
food & drink: Does your grocery store support Michigan-grown food?
Posted: Jun 27, 2011View PFC Local Producers in a larger map Maybe you've noticed how grocery stores are getting more tech-savvy. They haven't yet started making personal nutrition recommendations based on a BMI indicator as you walk in ... Read more »
Former U-M students help Honduran farming community make coffee more 'local'
Posted: Jun 06, 2011From left: Union Microfinanza employee Mike DeWit, UMF employee Gilberto Barrientos, farmer Tito Paz and UMF employee Patrick Hughes. UMF provides farmers a way out of poverty through small microloans of tools and supplies. After ... Read more »
Food & Drink: 12 local places to get meat that has been raised ethically
Posted: May 24, 2011With meat from most grocery stores, I am sure that I don't want to know what happened to it before it got to me - the life of imprisonment and the frightening end to what is usually a wretched existence. Read more »
Lab Cafe has Cecilia's macarons; HomeGrown Local Food Summit date announced
Posted: Jan 18, 2011Here are a few of the happenings around the Ann Arbor food scene this week. Lab Cafe on E. Liberty St. has started offering delicious macarons from Cecilia's Pastries. These melt-in-your-mouth concoctions, also available at ... Read more »
with video and slideshow: A visit to Nemeth Greenhouse & Farms - and the orchards, too
Posted: Oct 20, 2010In my Farm to Fork series I visit local farms around Ann Arbor and share what I learn. As Julie Wiernik wrote last year, Nemeth Greenhouse & Farms and Nemeth Orchards is five generations of ... Read more »
with video: Westside Farmers' Market: A season in review
Posted: Oct 04, 2010The Westside Farmers Market will start its 2011 season on Thursday, June 2. Corinna is an active volunteer with the market and provides an insider view of on the establishment. Last Thursday was the last ... Read more »
Penn State's hockey program jumps to Division 1-A, could lead to Big Ten hockey conference
Posted: Sep 17, 2010Penn State announced plans Friday morning to add men's and women's hockey to its roster of varsity sports beginning in 2012, possibly opening the door for a Big Ten hockey conference. Until now, Penn State ... Read more »
food & drink: Storing harvest bounty: canning vs. dehydrating
Posted: Sep 12, 2010Last winter I received Mary Bell’s Food Drying with an Attitude: A Fun and Fabulous Guide to Creating Snacks, Meals, and Crafts - and I put it aside because I did not have a dehydrator. ... Read more »
A2 Journal: Bay Port Fish Co. offers fish to local consumers through the Lunasa co-op
Posted: Sep 07, 2010A2 Journal has a profile of Bay Port Fish Co., a commercial fishery that offers fresh for sale through the Lunasa co-op. The company, run by Tod and Forrest Williams, operates fishing boats in Saginaw ... Read more »
A locavore discussion: Why preserve tomatoes for the winter?
Posted: Aug 23, 2010I have been scratching my head recently over a recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, called Math Lessons for Locavores, by Stephen Budiansky. First, I felt kinship with the author when he agreed ... Read more »
Mark your calendars for the third annual Homegrown Festival: a celebration of Michigan bounty
Posted: Aug 18, 2010In 2008, more than 1,000 people flocked in the pouring rain to the first HomeGrown Festival in the Community High parking lot. Last year, the HomeGrown Festival moved across the street to the protection of ... Read more »
Westside Farmers Market makes history with 1,100 visitors, plus a look at other accomplishments
Posted: Aug 16, 2010The Westside Farmers Market runs June-September in Zingerman’s Roadhouse parking lot (on the corner of Jackson and Maple) on Thursdays 3-7 p.m. Corinna is an active volunteer with the market and provides an insider view ... Read more »
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