The New Guys: MI Local Hops Stands Out In Growing Hops Industry
Before your bartender at the local beer tap fills an empty pint glass or you snatch up a six-pack of brew at your hometown...
Distilling Community
Craft spirits in Michigan is an industry that speaks often about creativity, a sense of community, and of course, good times and fellowship. After...
Life On A Freighter
Fourteen knots and a few hundred miles of Lake Michigan remain before the next stop. Come aboard a Great Lakes freighter with cadet-in-training Taylor...
It Really Does Take A Village
In rural Guatemala, not far from the border with Mexico, is a tiny village called Buena Vista and it is just that—a “good view.”...
Music to Our Ears
So many of us have fond memories of art and music classes in our school days. So often, it was a chance to decompress...
Clean Up With Dirty Girl Farm
I was the weirdo with the weird products helping the weirdos,” jokes Heather Rosencrantz, owner of Dirty Girl Farm, a line of all-natural, vegan...
Get your kicks on Michigan’s Route 66
Jazz pianist Nat King Cole immortalized driving the open road with his 1946 hit song, “Route 66,” a swinging rendition about traveling the fabled...
Chippin’ Away With Great Lakes Potato Chip Company
Eddie, what happened to my blankets?” said Ed Girrbach’s mother when she noticed they were missing. Ed jokes that after he explained he’d been...
Recycling With Rhonda
Recycling is on Rhonda Oyer’s mind every day, both at home and work. “I don’t even remember when I first became involved in recycling,”...
Legacy Along The Lake: St. Julian Wine Co.
When Mariano Meconi moved The Meconi Wine Company, founded in 1921 in Canada, to Detroit after the repeal of Prohibition in 1923, he couldn’t...
Pizza Recipes Due by June 1
Share your favorite “Pizza” recipe with us by June 1 and you could win a $100.00 credit on your electric bill. Plus, there’s more!
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