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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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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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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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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September 7, 2010 – 5:51 am
The Ann Arbor HomeGrown Festival is hoping you’ll help them raise a ruckus in the historic Ann Arbor Farmers’ Market pavilion this Saturday (September 11) from 6-11 PM. They’re celebrating food, farms and community with great eats and cool beverages, live music and fun for the whole family! Entry to the Festival is FREE, and [...]
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August 16, 2010 – 9:34 am
Grand Rapids Farmers Market 2009 by RichardDemingPhotography A Grand Rapids institution since 1922 commonly known as “the Farmer’s Market,” the Fulton Street Market offers locally-grown fruits and vegetables, plants and home-made arts and crafts. Reap the benefits and pleasures of freshly-picked fruits and vegetables, as well as hand-made items! The Fulton Street Farmer’s Market has [...]
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sweet corn! by PepOmint While corn is not yet ready to pick in northern Michigan where Taste the Local Difference is based, I did see a photo pop up yesterday in the Absolute Michigan pool on Flickr showing that corn is ready to pick in southern Michigan. The folks at TLD note that corn is [...]
Untitled by jenny murray First Michigan Cherries by RichardDemingPhotography Taste the Local Difference says that sweet cherries are ready to pick! A quick check of Real Time Farms and the photos in the Absolute Michigan pool shows that cherries are available across Michigan. They were available so early this year that the National Cherry Festival [...]
emil hates rhubarb by yodraws Taste the Local Difference says that rhubarb is in season. They note that rhubarb is high in Vitamins A and C, calcium and fiber and that one cup of diced rhubarb contains about 26 calories. It’s often called the “pie plant and for centuries, the dried root of the plant [...]
Real Time Farms is a community-sourced site that allows consumers, photographers, chefs, market managers, farmers and foodies to share their enthusiasm and support for the local food movement by using the site to discover what food is available at farmers markets and farm stands and also to share what’s they find there by contributing photos [...]
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