8th Annual Maple Syrup Festival
Join us at the Wagbo Farm on March 27 for our annual family event to celebrate Maple Syrup!
Maple Syrup Family Field Day
Come out to the Wagbo Farm for a fun and educational tour of the world of maple syrup! Learn how to tap trees, boil syrup in your own backyard, and operate a large-scale commercial evaporator. There will be separate children's activities, including a short hike, storytelling, and puppet shows. Wagbo will be serving hot beverages, soup, and snacks. Please come dressed for the weather, as this event will be mostly outdoors!
Cost $10 of adults, $5 for children, $28 for a family, 3 and under are free. Please register by Thursday, March 18. For more info, call 231-536-0333, or visit http://WagboPeaceCenter.blogspot.com.
Edible Art Photos
Check out these photos from last weekend's Edible Art Show at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons. Fun fun!
Conference helps kids eat healthy
Learn about getting fresh local foods into the schools, at MLUI's second farm-to-school conference, Setting the Table for Wellness. This regional conference for schools, camps, parents, students and farms will be held this saturday, March 15, at the Grand Traverse Resort & Spa. Check the conference web site for details and registration information.
Traceablity
Where do the foods come from, what will come in future years? Will our kids, or grandchildren think fish is raised on farms and never know they are from our waters?
Edible Art Show on Saturday
The farmers market at the Village at Grand Traverse Commons will get an artistic twist on Saturday. The "You Art What you Eat" Edible Art Show will feature edible creations crafted by market vendors, along with merchants, chefs and artists in the village. Purchase tickets at $1 each to cast votes for Best in Category and Best of Show. You can even enter silent-auction bids to take home select consumable artwork. All proceeds benefit local food banks. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Grand Traverse Pie Company presents "Kids Make & Take" Road Show in Suite 25. Children learn about local agriculture while handcrafting their very own pie! Donations support our local foster youth. Also bid on a gigantic GTPC Pie, a 7-pie equivalent, and either take it home or donate it to the local Goodwill Inn. The show runs during market hours, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Great fun for the entire family!
Three Local Chefs Honored
Three area chefs have been selected as semifinalists in the James Beard Foundation's annual chef awards, best chef for the Great Lakes Region: Randy Chamberlain, Blu, Glen Arbor; Myles Anton, Trattoria Stella, Traverse City and Guillaume Hazael-Massieux, La Becasse, Maple City. Awards will be announced in early May. Time magazine calls the JBF awards "the Oscars of the food world." Congratulations and good luck!
Alaskan Premium Seafoods, LLC
ALASKAN PREMIUM SEAFOODS, LLC is excited to announce they will be opening in Traverse City this spring. We have decided that since we make our living elsewhere and get to live in such a phenomenal area we should give back. So, we decided that there was a need for Alaskan fish here all year round, and that we were capable of supplying it to our local food establishments so that is what we are doing.
Festival of Foods this Saturday
Meet new foodie friends, try different foods, learn new cooking skills, and get fresh ideas in NMC's state-of-the-art kitchen and demonstration classrooms. The Winter Festival of Foods is scheduled for Saturday, February 20, from 10 a.m to 3 p.m. at the Oleson Center on the main campus of Northwestern Michigan College. Culinary instructors, area chefs, and specialty food business owners/staff provide demonstrations, tips and tricks, and samplings in this learn-a-lot-quick experience. Learn more. $69 for 4 demonstration sessions and lots of tastings.
NMC to offer Viticulture Certificate Program
Northwest Michigan's thriving grape and wine industry will have a new pipeline to a trained workforce thanks to a partnership between Northwestern Michigan College, Michigan State University, and the online VESTA program at Missouri State University.
This summer students may begin coursework toward a new viticulture certificate offered by MSU, with an option to complete an associate degree from NMC. Students will enroll through the MSU office at NMC's University Center. All classes will be offered online or in Traverse City. See news release for more information.
The Promise of Gardens
Diane Conners writes about how community, in the form of an experienced neighbor, transformed her early gardening efforts in Gardens Fed by Community. And now we have a chance to explore and foster that connection in northwest Michigan this Sunday afternoon. "The Promise of Gardens: How Gardens Build Community, Feed Us All and Reconnect Us to Nature," features award-winning author Eric Toensmeier. Attendees can hare ideas and resources during a visioning session, and connect with neighbors. A community gardens panel and group discussion will feature people who are starting or dreaming of garden projects in Benzie, Leelanau, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Antrim, Wexford and Missaukee counties. The event is free and runs from 12:30 to 4:30 at the Traverse Area District Library, 610 Woodmere, Traverse City.
Come to the Table: A New Year, A New Name!
Discover Good Food!
That's the new name of a show on WJR Radio in Detroit that has become a faithful friend to Up North Foodies and its partners.
Wine Dinner with Bowers Harbor Wines and Fustini’s @ aerie
What better to do on a cold snowy night than eat and drink to excess?
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