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Adventures in Local Food #17

It’s Grow Time The best time of year for local food is upon us again in Washtenaw County: farmer’s market season! The first week of May will see most of our local farmer’s markets opening again, with the Downtown Ypsi...

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The Dish: Al Dente Pasta Company

The Al Dente Pasta Company has come a long way since the early days when owner Monique Deschaine would personally make all of the pasta by hand. Nowadays, their locally-famous pastas and sauces are distributed from their small ...

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The Dish: The Wurst Bar

705 W Cross St., Ypsilanti // 734-485-6720 // www.wurstbarypsi.com Back in January, Mark Maynard interviewed Wurst Bar owner Jesse Kranyak and had only positive things to say about Ypsi’s newest bar (other than that th...

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Local Food to the Rescue: a talk by Joel Salatin

“Everything I want to do is illegal” says author (& farmer) Joel Salatin, who will be giving a talk called “Local Food to the Rescue” on April 24 at the Michigan Theater. Salatin returned full-time to his family far...

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Adventures in Local Food #16

Green Commodities Spring is officially here (although I thought we were still waiting for winter), and for many growers and local food enthusiasts that means being gripped by planting mania. For me it manifests itself in attend...

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Adventures in Local Food No. 15

Building the Future The growing momentum of local food is a compelling thing. I continue to be awestruck by innovations in every aspect of the local food movement from education to empowerment to entrepreneurship. I’m als...

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Adventures in Local Food 14

Advantage Michigan Without even knowing that Michigan had just made the top 10 list for U.S. states with the most winter farmer’s markets, last month we celebrated the bounty of Southeast Michigan’s winter-time loca...

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Adventures in Local Food #13

Winter Harvest As we discussed in November, there are plenty of farmers and backyard gardeners here in Michigan (as in other cold places across the nation) who use techniques to extend the growing season. To match this increasi...

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Adventures in Local Food #12

One Year of Local Food Hard to believe it’s already been a year of Adventures in Local Food! And what a busy year in food it’s been—from the struggles with confusing and seemingly contradictory food safety legisla...

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Give the Gift of Michigan-Made!

Local Buying Guide Why buying local makes a difference Here in Michigan we are incredibly fortunate to have such a vibrant community of people interested in supporting local producers, artisans and locally-owned businesses of a...

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