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New York Times
26-05-2025
- New York Times
A Sweet and Savory Road Trip in Northern Michigan
Ask any Michigander to define 'Up North,' a colloquial term for Northern Michigan, and you'll find the answer varies widely. For the past 40 years, my family has defined it as the greater Grand Traverse Bay — an arm of Lake Michigan where miles of white sand beaches and towering dunes stretch alongside freshwater lakes so vast they resemble oceans. Here, wildflower meadows bloom, cherry orchards thrive, rolling farmlands unfold and nowhere else do we eat as well. Over the years, we've learned that the best way to experience the flavors of the land and the lakes is by visiting local farm stands, orchards, wineries and fisheries to gather the region's bounty at the source. Canada 10 miles Traverse City Lake Michigan Minn. michIGAN 31 Idyll Farms Michigan Grand Traverse Bay Lakeview Hill Farm & Market Carlson's Fishery Bellaire Smokehouse Loma Farm Old Mission Peninsula Farm Club 22 West Arm Grand Traverse Bay Leelanau Cheese Bos Wine Elk Rapids Leelanau Peninsula Interwater Farms 72 Taproot Cider House The Cooks' House S2S Sugar to Salt Traverse City 131 31 31 2 miles Canada 10 miles Traverse City michIGAN Michigan Idyll Farms 31 Grand Traverse Bay Carlson's Fishery Bellaire Smokehouse Leelanau Cheese Bos Wine Elk Rapids Interwater Farms Lakeview Hill Loma Farm Farm Club Taproot Cider House The Cooks' House 72 S2S Sugar to Salt Traverse City 131 By The New York Times A tour beginning in Traverse City, either venturing west to the villages of Suttons Bay, Leland and Northport, or east to Elk Rapids, Williamsburg and Eastport, could have your vehicle, by day's end, brimming with organic fruit and vegetables, freshly caught whitefish, bottles of Riesling, creamy cheese, baked goods and more. Each stop on this sweet and savory tour offers a taste of a region as diverse as it is delicious. As the season starts, farmers are planting their crops and preparing for the busy summer months, when the region welcomes more than eight million tourists between now and Labor Day. A Different Way of Farming Just seven miles from downtown Traverse City lies Farm Club, a restaurant, bakery, brewery, market and fermentation project that has quickly become a cornerstone of the region's food scene. The restaurant offers a true farm-to-table experience (minus any pretension), while the market overflows with fresh produce, wines, East Coast Pale Ale beer ($13 for a six-pack), sea salt chocolate rye cookies ($3 each), stone-milled heirloom cornmeal ($7 a bag) and five-pound brown bags of flour milled on-site ($12). Coolers are stocked with housemade pickles ($10) and sauerkraut ($12) fermented on-site, a vibrant snapshot of what the farm — two acres at Farm Club and an additional eight acres down the road at their main farm, Loma Farm — has to offer. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CBC
22-02-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Sudbury's Kivi Park hosts 600 high school ski races for 2025 OFSAA Nordic Championships
The OFSAA Nordic ski championships started early yesterday, and 15 races later, it's wrapping up at Kivi Park in Sudbury. Up North producer Bridget Yard takes us there.
