“The Pleasure of Knowing We Have Done Our Part” Dr. Rosemary Berardi and Dr. Carolyn Zaleon have done an amazing and selfless thing. They have donated a beloved piece of […]

“The Pleasure of Knowing We Have Done Our Part” Dr. Rosemary Berardi and Dr. Carolyn Zaleon have done an amazing and selfless thing. They have donated a beloved piece of […]
Promise Keepers Thirty six years ago, Mike and Janet McManus made a promise. They were about to purchase Karl Kiessel’s farm along Eagle Highway—an ideal fruit-growing site overlooking Lake Michigan. […]
Thirty six years ago, Mike and Janet McManus made a promise. They were about to purchase Karl Kiessel’s farm along Eagle Highway—an ideal fruit-growing site overlooking Lake Michigan. “Karl was […]
When you retire at 55 from the Chrysler Corporation as its assistant treasurer, and then become a cherry farmer for the next three decades, what does that look like? Tom […]
Female bobcats won’t share their territory, and each one requires about five square miles to thrive. So when Mike and Teri Steichen glimpsed a bobcat skirting past their house north […]
A Place for the Children Along Leo Creek There is a magical place near Suttons Bay, along beautiful Leo Creek, where Montessori children once built stick forts, picked blueberries and […]
Dr. Dan Palmer grew up in Frankfort, and enjoyed camping out on the dunes north of town in a place called Devil’s Armchair and on the Sleeping Bear dunes. […]
The year was 2005. Emily Gregory and Mark Miezio had been dating for just about four months. They were living in Chicago where Mark consulted as a civil engineer and […]
From Our Fall 2014 Newsletter In the heart of the agricultural corridor along Center Highway sits the old Green farm. The Leelanau Trail stretches back off to the east, and […]
When Jerry Kelenske was a little boy, he didn’t have many toys to play with. His parents were farmers who had their only child late in life. So he entertained […]