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What heat waves, frost, drought and torrential rain mean for our cherry orchards
NewsNinety degrees on April 1. Frost in May. Drought in June, and torrential rain storms of up to 4.75 inches within five hours in July. It has not been a typical year for northern Michigan cherry growers. But then, typical years are either a thing of the past, or the rarest of occurrences. Some local cherry farmers wonder how much longer this region will be viable for cherry farming. Where once the peninsula was identified as ideal cherry growing land, the years and seasons have become more variable; years of poor crops and even crop failures more frequent.
Lake Dancer
NewsZachary Guthier, visiting from Madison, Wisconsin, danced on this Glen Lake dock prior to his Aug. 12 performance with the TC Dance Project at Thoreson Farm, an initiative of the Glen Arbor Arts Center.
Collaborative Care for the Water
NewsOn a recent warm summer evening, I met Ella and Annabel Skrocki at the public beach in Empire—their natural habitat. They rolled up in their mom’s vintage mint-green Chevrolet, pulled a paddleboard from the bed of the truck, and together we set off for a sunset paddle on Lake Michigan. The sky was hazy as the sun dipped lower, the effect of wildfires out west on display here in northern Michigan. We made our way south across calm rolling waves to sit at the base of the Empire Bluff while the sun completed its descent. While we sat, we talked, and these two sisters gave me a glimpse into their friendship, water stewardship, and the mindset that fuels it all.
Glen Arbor hosts open house to discuss Heritage Trail connector route
NewsGlen Arbor Township will host a community open house on Thursday, Aug. 19, from 7-8:30 p.m. at the Township Hall, located at 6394 W. Western Ave, to discuss a preliminary design for a connector route for the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail.
“Music brings people together, breaks down barriers”
NewsThe fields at Backyard Burdickville in Empire Township will come to life once again with the sound of music. The LivelyLands Music Festival returns, Aug. 20-22, to the former Empire Eagles’ campground on M-72, which the Lively family purchased in 2019. LivelyLands was canceled last year during the COVID-19 shutdown. With guitar picking and beautiful maladies crooning through the fields and forests, this intimate, “backyard” festival carries the legacy of Leelanau County summer music festivals.
Old Art Building holds Plein Air Clothesline Show
NewsThe Leland Old Art Building’s “Painting on Location” group will hold its first ever show and sale on the front lawn of the OAB in Leland on Monday, August 16, from 2-6 pm. The clothesline show will include paintings by artists who participated in the 2021 plein air painting group. The show will move inside in the case of implement weather. Admission is free, and all proceeds benefit the painters.
Sleeping Bear visitation down in July, but still on track for record-setting pace in 2021
NewsSleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore attracted 481,137 visitors in July, which is more than 110,000 fewer than July 2020, when the Park drew 592,404 guests—a single-month record. Nevertheless, Sleeping Bear remains on pace for a record year in 2021. Visitation figures are still 6.96 percent ahead of last year at this time.
“Accoutrements” captures Port Oneida farms
NewsThe farms of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore offer sweeping views of land, barns, farmhouses, and various outbuildings. They have interested painter David Giordan for decades. Driving up from their Lansing home, he and his wife would see the farms on their way to Lake Leelanau. One day they stopped and fortuitously met a park ranger who told them about the rich history of the Port Oneida farms. At that time, the National Lakeshore’s plan was to let the farms languish and be removed.
Leland Library hosts Jenifer Strauss, Jennifer Steinorth
NewsOn Friday, August 13 at 10:30 a.m., as part of their Children’s Summer Program, Leland Township Library will host storyteller Jenifer Strauss. Jenifer will be performing her “Don’t You Like My Tail?” story on the lawn of the Leland Library.
Kim Ryan’s journey to Hell’s Kitchen and back
NewsLocal food aficionados know that Leelanau County and Traverse City are both hubs of talent and great ingredients. But did you know that we have a home-grown winner of the noted reality TV show headed by Chef Gordon Ramsay, Hell’s Kitchen? Kim Ryan, graduate of the Culinary Institute of Michigan won Hell’s Kitchen Season 16 in 2017. Ryan, fresh from a year of growing and defining her own catering company, Lucky Cook Catering LLC, has been brain storming with Mimi Heberlein, owner of the Willowbrook event space in Northport to organize special dinners featuring her and four of her fellow Hell’s Kitchen alumnae.