Not Just a Corn Maze
Open through November 1st, Jacob’s Farm features a 10-acre corn maze and a host of autumn experiences perfect for a family outing, or even just an open-air night out.
Welcome to the (Farm) Club
A restaurant on a farm, selling produce and baked goods, brewing ales and cider in house? It just makes sense. The farm literally couldn’t be any closer to the table.
Light of Day Organics Fuel the Body & Soul
It takes an abundance of tiny leaves to make a single pound of tea, and it is grown almost exclusively in temperate zones. So how does a Tea Fairy in snowy Leelanau County manage to grow hundreds of certified organic tea plants on her farm?
Overwintering at 9 Bean Rows
How does a Leelanau County farmer spend the winter months? For 9 Beans Rows’ Nic Welty, it’s about “lasagna gardening.” Yes, you read that right.
Finding Green This Winter
For lovers of leafy greens, nothing beats a Caesar Salad — especially one made with a homemade dressing. Here’s the scoop on finding great local greens this winter along with a cool trick for growing your own on the window sill from salvaged scraps.
Baseball & Advertising
The opening game of the 2015 Major League Baseball season was played recently as the St. Louis Cardinals faced the Chicago Cubs on a chilly spring evening at Wrigley Field, and this was to be every fans’ first glimpse of the $575 million dollar, 4-year renovation underway at the century-old ballpark.
Google’s Mobile-Friendly Ranking Algorithm
As a growing number of web-enabled devices are handheld, Google has made an effort to place higher value on websites which bring you the information you seek in a format that will be easier to access that same information on a smaller screen.
Running with the Mountain Lions (Mac OS 10.8)
My world these days is rather tied to this computer and the amazing things which it is able to help me accomplish (for fun and for profit), and there are a few specific software programs on which I depend in order to make this happen… Day in and day out.
It’s the Eve of the World Series
This is the morning of the day of the opening game between the Detroit Tigers and the San Francisco Giants. The 2012 World Series is about to commence, and the Tigers are looking strong.
All Eyes on Detroit
For me growing up, my earliest dream was to be a baseball statistician. And I mean that with utmost seriousness. I entertained no goals of becoming a left-handed starting pitcher or the ace reliever for the Tigers, and short stop was always out of the question for a lefty like me. No, there was really no question for a mathematically able yet athletically challenged kid like myself, statistician was the gift of my calling.