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There's an ancient variety of squash that was largely forgotten about. But it’s been rediscovered. Tribes around the Great Lakes region are sharing the...
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The study, published in the journal Environmental Health, found that continuous exposure to very low doses of the herbicide Roundup might be linked to...
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One evening, while my husband and I were talking with a young couple who manage a Community Supported Agriculture business, we wandered onto the topic...
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If you’ve picked up a box of fresh strawberries recently from a local grocery store, there’s a good chance they were handpicked by a migrant farm…
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There’s a garlic show this weekend near Traverse City. It will include a “best in show” award and there will be an auction.Northern Michigan is not a…
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“What a beautiful fall day.” Normally you won’t think anything of a tweet like this. But when that tweet comes at the end of July, it’s a little...
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The nation’s tart cherry growers are on track to grow about as many tart cherries as they can sell this year. That’s good news for an industry that often…
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With winter finally behind us, hopefully fruit farmers all over Michigan are getting an idea of what the snow, ice and cold has done to orchards,...
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The face of farming in America, and here in Michigan, is changing. More and more often, that farmer raising crops or tending to a dairy herd is a woman....
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The farm bill has about $57 billion for conservation. Director of the Healing Our Waters-Great Lakes Coalition Todd Ambs says a lot of people don't...