From our 2012 Summer Newsletter The old wooden flats Sonny Swanson used to start his seeds in for decades found new life this spring. Ben Brown, the young farmer who […]
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From our 2012 Summer Newsletter The old wooden flats Sonny Swanson used to start his seeds in for decades found new life this spring. Ben Brown, the young farmer who […]
“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 […]
Your Dream Property? We are so fortunate that a generous family with deep ties to Leelanau has gifted a half-ownership over a spectacular five-acre residential lot on Good Harbor Bay […]
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 […]
Did you know that nearly three-quarters of the lands we have protected are privately owned? In addition to the natural areas and preserves that you know and love, the […]
Sitting around the kitchen table with Kathy and Gene Garthe, learning about the farmland that has been in Gene’s family for four generations, what strikes me most is how deliberately […]