Our new 1.5-mile winding trail at DeYoung Natural Area is open! The trail takes you through farm fields, past 30-year-old heritage-variety apple trees and over a small stream. From the […]
Conservancy Partners with Four More Families to Protect 688 Acres of Farmland
Over the last three years, the Leelanau Conservancy has partnered with nine farm families to access available funding to conserve their farms. This year, four additional farm families will be […]
Egeler Farm Protected: 116 Acres of Prime Fruit Growing Land
It wasn’t easy to arrange a meeting with farmers Mike and Jeanette Egeler. Both work seven days a week, most days well into the evening. Between their cherry farm, Mike’s […]
Leland Village Green: A Brief History
Posted September, 2013–The Leland Village Green is located in the Village of Leland on Main Street, across from the post office. The Leelanau Conservancy, founded in 1988 and celebrating its […]
A Leelanau “Bucket List”
What’s a ‘bucket list’? An accounting of all of the things you’d like to do while you are still able. The essence of any good bucket list consists of overcoming […]
25 Things You Can Do to Protect Water Quality
25 Things You Can do To Improve and Maintain Water Quality At our May 5 “Water and the Future of the Great Lakes” Speaker Series program, many who attended desired […]
Noonan (Glen) Protects 506 Acres of Beloved Family Lands
From our 2012 Spring Newsletter February 2012-When I first moved to Leelanau County 25 years ago, one of the names I kept seeing in the newspaper was Glen Noonan’s. At […]
From the Director: Looking Ahead to the Next 25 Years
In January nearly 100 members of the Leelanau Conservancy Sustainers Circle gathered at the Glen Arbor Township Hall. The topic for our program was a brief retrospective of our first […]
Leelanau State Park Expansion: For the Birds!
Watching for Eagles This winter my husband, Dave, and I noticed several cars coming and going at the end of our road. We live along M-22 in LeelanauTownship, just south […]
Two Families Continue the Tradition of Farming at DeYoung Natural Area
For five years, Samantha put her heart into a piece of land, establishing and growing an orchard using the innovative methods of permaculture. When life circumstances required her to leave […]
