Lindsey MacDonald wants to give University of Michigan students, faculty and staff a chance to get their hands dirty. MacDonald is one of four School of Natural Resources and Environment graduate students working to establish a campus farm on the grounds of Matthaei Botanical Gardens. The farm would bring people ...
Last year I wrote a Guide to Choosing Your CSA Farm Share that describes the CSA concept (a farm membership that usually includes a weekly box of locally grown produce from about June through October) and outlines criteria to apply to choose the farm that's right for you. Recently, I've ...
After several years of planning to — but never remembering to — we finally signed up for a CSA*. Ours is a special fall farm share from Tantre Farm, and every week a magical box filled with amazing fall vegetables sits in my kitchen, waiting for us to turn it ...
I love sweet corn, so I hate that summer is almost over. Another couple of days and poof! It's gone for eight months while we get our long winter's nap. In the middle of asking myself why I want to live with such an attenuated season of warmth and light, I'm ...
One of the great things about having a CSA farm share is that you get to eat with the seasons. But with Grange Kitchen and Bar's "CSC" program, you can also drink with the seasons and help preserve the taste of summer in your glass. You've heard of the CSA ...
"You might not always recognize every item in your weekly box, but it's almost certain to inspire." NPR has a post up about the joys of cooking from a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) farm share. Author Nicole Spiridakis shares tips and recipes for approaching what can feel like a daunting ...
By my count, there are more than 20 Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms in the Ann Arbor area. These direct farmer-to-eater type of businesses offer everything from fresh produce (like Beautiful Earth Farm) to frozen fruits and vegetables (Locavorious) to kimchi and sauerkraut (The Brinery) to chickens and eggs (Two ...
"I believe that the community — in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures — is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms." — Wendell Berry (The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays ...
Calling all food patriots: "Oh, Say Can You CSA” (a phrase coined by AnnArbor.com's Corinna Borden) might be the new national anthem for what’s being called the "Good Food Revolution." For people who want to eat food that is good for them and good for the planet, the most direct ...
While grocery shopping yesterday, Richard and I stopped the cart to gaze longingly at the heads of cauliflower. Glistening under a spray of water they trembled slightly under the disconcerting rumble of thunder, that piped-in nature sound fashionable in some of today's supermarkets. "Why aren't you making cauliflower dishes these ...
A man was questioned Monday after witnesses reported seeing him use his cell phone to take photographs underneath women’s skirts at a Meijer store, Pittsfield Township police said. The man was not arrested and was released pending further investigation.
Rates for University of Michigan residence hall room and board next academic year could increase 3 percent under a proposal to be considered by U-M's Board of Regents at a meeting this week. The proposal calls for an average increase of 3 percent for residence hall room and board, and ...
“The goal here is to make it easier for people to eat fresh local food, to make it convenient, to make it easier for people to connect ... to the food and the land.” This is how Harvest Kitchen founder Mary Wessel Walker describes her business.
Matchmaker, Matchmaker; Make me a match; Find me a find; Catch me a catch Our very own food luminary, Kim Bayer of Slow Food Huron Valley and the HomeGrown Festival, has put together a comprehensive guide of the CSAs offered in and around Ann Arbor. It is posted for free ...
In my Farm to Fork series I visit local farms around Ann Arbor and share what I learn. Tom Zilke’s passion and excitement for the second year of his vegetable growing enterprise is palpable and communicated. “My thing is, I like putting a seed in the ground and I like ...
Angela J. Cesere | AnnArbor.com AnnArbor.com's partner news site MLive.com is on a quest to find the best barbecue in ......
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