Selma 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 of creating a thriving local food system.
Ann 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 talk on using crowd-sourcing to document America's food system. The theme of the TEDx event ...
View 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 the store, but it seems like they all have websites now. Since I want to ...
From 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 several service trips to the mountainous villages of La Union, Honduras, former University of Michigan ...
With 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.
Here 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 the Saturday farmers market, are available in hazelnut, coconut, mango, jasmine, coffee and violet. Warning: ...
In 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 a family working together to provide apples, vegetables, container plants, donuts and cider for those ...
The 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 market day of the 2010 season for the Westside Farmers' Market. We were gifted with ...
Penn 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 has played hockey at the club level. But now the university has a "transformational" $88 ...
Last 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. Like last year, I started this season with drying tomatoes in my oven, but the ...
A2 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 Bay and Lake Huron. You can read the full story on the A2 Journal site.
I 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 with what I learned when I did my organic berry jam cost comparison article - ...
In 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 Kerrytown and hosted more than 5,000 people. The weather was perfect. The smorgasbord of sounds, ...
The 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 of on the establishment. Last Thursday was hot and humid with a scattering of clouds. ...
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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