As part of our celebration of Michigan Wine Month, we'll be featuring excerpts on each of Michigan's five wine trails (and one taking you beyond the trails) from the Michigan Notable Book award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries.
(Old Mission Peninsula AVA)
The meso-climate of Old Mission Peninsula is unique not only in the state of [...]
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April 17, 2008 – 10:19 am
Wildflowers by Leon Baker
In Michigan, the number of native plants being buried under bulldozers is decreasing, thanks to the efforts of the Cranbrook Wildflower Rescue Committee in southern Michigan and the Leland Wildflower Rescue in northern Michigan. The Cranbrook committee has been in operation for over 25 years, the Leland committee for over 15. [...]
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One of our major sponsors is Earthwork Music, a group of fine and creative folks who believe in the power of music. Check their site for plenty of music to listen to and buy, performance schedules and information about the many talented musicians and artists who are a part of Earthwork.
They're playing a benefit for [...]
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Lady Slipper Flower by cyoas55
The Pink Lady's Slipper (Cypripedium acaule) or Moccasin Flower is a large, showy wildflower belonging the the orchid family. The heavily veined, deeply cleft pouch of this wild orchid is a distinctive characteristic of this species. Because this plant has an extremely long life cycle, taking many years to go from [...]
Fair Evening by CaptPiper
Interlochen Public Radio's Points North program recently spoke with Michigan Department of Agriculture Director Donald Koivisto about many aspects of farming in Michigan like biofuels and value added agriculture along with challenges to farming operations like food safety, water withdrawals, re-zoning and taxes on farms and availability of migrant labor. Agriculture is [...]
Welcome to a special Michigan Homes & Real Estate edition of Five Things you need to know about Michigan. Before I dive in I wanted to say a little something about our month themes. We got the word that a) you like them but b) you would like them to be not so loud so [...]
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Jack & Kelly added this video of ice boating on Elk Lake from March 6, 2008 to the Absolute Michigan group on YouTube. If you have a Michigan video to share, you can do the same!
They have a lot more ice boating videos on their YouTube page and also run the Michigan Iceboat group.
February 25, 2008 – 10:38 am
legs inn by 46137
The Legs Inn is a "monument to nature" built on a high bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. The fantasy-like atmosphere of this medieval looking stone, timber and driftwood landmark was created by Polish immigrant, Stanley Smolak who fell in love with Northern Michigan and its people and decided to settle in Cross Village [...]
February 19, 2008 – 6:05 pm
Sun sets on Tapawingo by RohdeBarb
Dine, v: to eat a good dinner in good company, and eat it slow. In dining, as distinguished from mere feeding, the palate and stomach never ask the hand, 'What are you giving us?'
Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary 1911
So begins a sample menu from Tapawingo in Ellsworth that [...]
