Category Archives: Events
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Water and the Future of the Great Lakes: Sign Up and Learn More!
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Annual Picnic on August 2!
Hear ye, hear ye! The Leelanau Conservancy’s annual picnic and auction is coming up soon – on Thursday August 2, on the Newton Farm overlooking the Manitou Islands. CLICK HERE to visit our picnic/auction page to learn more, and to purchase tickets for this annual event. See you there!
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Mario Batali: Molto Big Apple Weekend for Six Raffle Will Protect Leelanau Farmland!
Mario Batali loves Leelanau County and is again offering a great opportunity to raise funds for farmland preservation this year. On tap, a one-of-a-kind raffle for a culinary weekend of a lifetime. (See complete description below in Raffle Rules. ) And Conservancy supporters have the first opportunity to participate. So get your group together and [...]
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Volunteering—One Volunteer’s Story
Every summer my family and I drive up from Florida to spend two weeks with my husband’s parents at their cottage on Lake Leelanau. Over 20 summers in Leland, the Leelanau Peninsula has remained one of the most beautiful areas I have ever visited, in large part because so much of the land is being [...]
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Wildflower Rescue Annual Plant Sale on the Leland Village Green
Friday, May 25th to Sunday, May 28th (Memorial Weekend) Wildflower Rescue Plant SaleThe 19th Annual Plant Sale on the Village Green in Leland is on tap for Memorial Day Weekend! Now is your chance to purchase native ferns, trillium and more along with a selection of native trees and shrubs provided by locally owned Four [...]
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Remembering Marilyn Mook
From our 2012 Spring Newsletter November 2011–If you have attended our Annual Friends Picnic and Auction in recent years, you may have noticed the beautiful quilts that were up for bidding every August. They were donated by Marilyn Mook, who passed away this summer after a recurrence of breast cancer. I was personally shocked and [...]
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Save the Date! Thursday August 4, 2011
Save the Date! Thursday August 4, 2011 It’s Picnic Time! We’ve got a great Picnic on tap once again! Come help us celebrate all the great things we have accomplished together. This year’s Picnic will be held on Thursday, August 4th at the historic Rex Dobson Ruby Ellen Farm –one our first farmland protection [...]
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New Trail at Lighthouse West Natural Area
October 2009–On a blustery day in early October, two dozen people gathered to officially open a new hiking trail at Lighthouse West Natural Area near Northport. “This property and the tip of the peninsula in general have irreplaceable coastal values,” Conservancy Director Brian Price told those in attendance as he cut the ribbon. “The whole [...]
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Mario Batali Gets to Know Leelanau Farmers
From our 2009 Fall Newsletter July 2009–Last week, chef Mario Batali signed on for a summer share of veggies at Meadowlark Farm, savored the last of Bardenhagen strawberries straight from the field, and bumped along in a Chevy Suburban with Don and Ann Gregory through their cherry orchard. “I wanted to meet the people who [...]
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Restoration Work Begins at DeYoung Natural Area
From our 2007 Fall Newsletter Usually, folks at Leelanau Conservancy aren’t fond of seeing bulldozers in beautiful places. But in the case of the DeYoung Natural Area on Cedar Lake, the dozers will be a welcome sight this week. The activity is part of an ongoing effort to bring back a healthy, native landscape at [...]
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