The Grand Vision Food & Farming principle seeks to preserve agriculture as a viable economic practice in the region by protecting farmland. One method of preserving farmland is to use conservation easements such as those available through the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy's Farmland Protection Program.
Here's a video that talks about these efforts.

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The Grand Vision Food and Farming Guiding Principle is to encourage local food, farming and rural development as a vital part of our economy, culture and identity.
The Associated Press has this story on a local Maple City resident famous for his food carvings:
He's best known for his fall pumpkin carvings, but it's what Pat Harrison [...]

The Grand Vision Food and Farming Guiding Principle is to encourage local food, farming and rural development as a vital part of our economy, culture and identity.
Yesterday (8/11) at the Northwestern Michigan Fair there was a Cooking with Kids event.
400 kids and parents participated in the tasty fun!
It was all about having them taste the [...]

ISLAND (Institute for Sustainable Living, Art, & Natural Design) with major support from The Neahtawanta Research and Education Center, Eden Foods, Fernand Footwear and Fox on a Hill present Permaculture For Abundance With Peter Bane & Keith Johnson.
It all takes place the weekend of August 28th and 29th.
What is Permaculture?
As a system of design, Permaculture [...]

Here is an article from WISC-TV/Channel3000.com written by Brian Clark in Wisconsin:
In my humble opinion, there’s no better way to get from Wisconsin to mainland Michigan than hopping on the S.S. Badger, a 400-foot-long vehicle and passenger ferry that has been plying the waters of Lake Michigan for more than 50 years.
Once in Michigan, we [...]

The Grand Vision Food and Farming Guiding Principle is to encourage local food, farming and rural development as a vital part of our economy, culture and identity.
The Record-Eagle has this Food and Farming related news from their staff reports:
Kids can play with their food at the Northwestern Michigan Fair this week.
Cooking with Kids will be [...]

The Grand Vision Food and Farming Guiding Principle is to encourage local food, farming and rural development as a vital part of our economy, culture and identity.
MyNorth.com has this story on Northern Michigan's next generation winemakers:
Northern Michigan is home to 27 Michigan wineries dotted mostly throughout Traverse City, Leelanau County and the Old Mission Peninsula. [...]

This is a Food and Farming related blog written by Michelle Northrup. The views expressed within are solely the author's. To read the previous posts, click here.
"Old Mother Hubbard
Went to the cupboard,
To give the poor dog a bone:
When she came there,
The cupboard was bare,
And so the poor dog had none."
It has been a month of [...]

The Food and Farming guiding principle of the Grand Vision is to encourage local food, farming and rural development as a vital part of our economy, culture and identity.
Sustainable Food blogger Greg Plotkin tracks recent media coverage of local food and what he calls a problem with the movement: "While we value the food and, [...]

The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports that Traverse Heights Elementary will install a community garden this summer with the hope it will provide a real world environment for related curriculum, not to mention adding fresh ingredients to the school's meals. School board member Gary Appel taught science in California and co-authored "The Growing Classroom," a [...]