Category Archives: Michigan Grown

Michigan Strawberries are Ready to Pick!

June 9, 2011 – 8:12 am

Ann Arbor June 2009 by RichardDemingPhotography Ed Vielmetti is the Paul Revere of Michigan strawberries. The Ann Arbor area is usually the first in Michigan to see ripe berries, and Ed says that ‘U-Pick’ strawberries are ready this week in SE Michigan! Ed advises: The pick-your-own strawberry season is short. Typically there are only three [...]

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Taste the Local Difference encourages you to Spend 10

May 23, 2011 – 8:30 am

Absolute Michigan sponsor and local food partner Taste the Local Difference has released their 2011 Local Food Guide. The pocket-sized guide is packed with information about more than 300 businesses that feature local food: local farms, wineries, breweries, distilleries, farmers markets and retail businesses and food artisans in the 10-county region stretching from Manistee to [...]

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5×5 Night in Grand Rapids

April 25, 2011 – 8:58 am

5 ideas, 5 minutes each, 5 slides each, 5 judges, 5,000 dollars 5×5 Night is a monthly event in Grand Rapids that allows 5 people to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges who decide how to award $5,000 on the last Tuesday night of every month. The third 5×5 happens tomorrow night at [...]

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Field & Stream taps Michigan #1 for flyfishing in USA

April 20, 2011 – 9:58 am

Fly Fishing by Murtasma Field & Stream Magazine’s FlyTalk picked the 12 Best States for flyfishing in the U.S.A., and Michigan hooked their #1 spot. Kirk Deeter writes that he based his picks on a variety of factors including all-around (multi-species) opportunities, angler-friendly environment and a cultural affinity to fly fishing. 1. Michigan. Another sentimental [...]

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Bavarian Inn hosts “Purely Michigan” dinner

March 2, 2011 – 4:51 pm

photos & article by Samantha Tengelitsch The Bavarian Inn Restaurant in Frankenmuth celebrated all things Michigan with its annual “Purely Michigan” feast last Friday. The Inn’s own Chef Phil designed a five-course meal featuring Michigan-grown foods including cranberries from the Michigan Cranberry Company (Cheboygan), the Inn’s famous Red Currant Wine, a sweet blend of currants [...]

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February is National Cherry Month … so get out there and eat some!

February 22, 2011 – 10:30 am

Megan from American Spoon sent me over their cool National Cherry Month photo feature that takes you through four seasons of cherries. Click that cherry to the left to Choose Cherries on Facebook. You can get bushels more cherry goodness including our Eat Local: Michigan Cherries feature at absolutemichigan.com/Cherry! We also have a video feature [...]

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Michigan Culinary Tourism

February 21, 2011 – 9:44 am

Mack-in-touch Apples by ( Jennifer ) A month ago, Absolute Michigan participated in the the Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations conference (read our live blog) where the Michigan Culinary Tourism initiative was launched. For the video below, we spoke with Melody Johnson of the International Culinary Tourism Association, keynote speaker Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman’s, Linda Jones [...]

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Benzie County Water Festival ~ Saturday, March 19th

February 14, 2011 – 11:45 am

Here’s some videos from presenters and performers at the Benzie County Water Festival, along with some of the beautiful water they’ll be talking about! Do you have others to add? Add them in the comments or click that Facebook link to share them there! ‘Lighthouse Dawn’ Point Betsie Lighthouse, Lake Michigan photo by Michigan Nut [...]

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Live at the Michigan Culinary Tourism Conference

January 10, 2011 – 8:26 am

Click here for a video from the conference! All day today the Absolute Michigan team is at Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations, Michigan’s first conference on Culinary Tourism. The conference was a hot ticket, and nearly 200 tourism industry stakeholders are getting ready to learn about Michigan’s new initiative to increase tourism. You can learn all [...]

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2010 Michigan Haunted Attractions, Corn Mazes & Halloween Guide

October 4, 2010 – 7:03 am

My Life In the Bush of Ghosts by DaddyNewt Be afraid, be very afraid!!! Once again our Fearsome Finder of Frights has compiled a list of haunted houses, corn mazes and scary attractions. You can also check Absolute Michigan keyword haunted and (as always) if you know of one we missed, please post it in [...]

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