NEW: The Michigan Food Blog

News about food. Gardening tips. The latest on what's in season. Recipes featuring local foods. The new Michigan Food Blog offers everything about fresh, local and seasonal food in Michigan. Co-authors Bonnie Bucqueroux, Casey Williamson and Tina Sarkey will keep you entertained and informed, while offering you a chance to comment. Click here now to learn the latest.

Other Michigan Food Bloggers

Mother's Kitchen - Ann Arbor "Mom" loves cooking, canning & sewing (but hates housework).

Fruitcake or Nuts - Shayne is a married, Michigan, mother of two who recently moved to Mexico City.

Dog Hill Kitchen - Maggie loves cooking from scratch, as well as accommodating people with different tastes and food allergies.

Popcorn Homestead - Joan recently moved to Japan, but she continues to report on garden and food activities in Ann Arbor.

Find the Michigan farm market closest to you - MIFMA, the Michigan Farmers' Markets Association at Michigan State University, offers an online market locator. Click here to find a farm market in your area. And click here to learn the lingo and here for some farm market shopping tips.

Coming in 2009: Our new cookbook, "Foods of Michigan - fresh, local and seasonal"

We are pleased to announce that our new cookbook will be available in time for gift-giving on Christmas 2009. The book will offer four seasonal menus, with recipes, as well as profiles of the Michigan farmers who produce food they are proud of.

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Producer Profile Rebecca Titus plans to add more hoophouses to the family's organic farm in Leslie, so that they can provide greens all winter long. FRESH: Movie about sustainable farming - watch the trailer Need to go gluten free? If you have celiac disease, eating any trace of wheat, barley or rye can do damage. Cookbook co-author Bonnie Bucqueroux shows how you can making your own gluten-free baking powder.

Visit us often because we are just getting started. Our goal is to make this your first stop whenever you think about Michigan food -- fresh, local, and seasonal.

Come here to find recipes and cooking tips featuring the amazing variety of fresh, local foods available in Michigan. Come here also to learn more about the wonderful folks who produce the food that we all enjoy.

This site will also become a resource about the philosophy of eating locally and seasonally, and how doing so not only benefits your own health but the health of the planet as well. It is important to connect back to nature and to the land, so we will soon open a section on gardening and microfarming . For those who cannot grow their own food, this site will help connect you to producers you can trust.

This site is lovingly produced by three women who care about sharing information on the benefits of fresh and healthy Michigan food. Please take a moment to visit our Michigan Food Blog. We are also working on a cookbook. In the right-hand column, you will find a form that allows you to give us your email so we can notify you when the cookbook is published. And check back often because we have many more exciting features that will launch soon.

Still harvesting fresh spinach from my hoophouse

My hoophouse on April 6, 2009

I offer this picture of my spinach as proof that you can grow vegetables year-round in Michigan in a hoophouse. Even when greens like spinach and lettuce freeze overnight, if you let them thaw before harvesting, they are as fresh and crisp as ever.

That late-season snowstorm this week reminds me what a wondrous invention these high-tunnel hoophouses are for folks like me who live in a place where I once saw snow on July 4.

Am I the only one who thinks this could revolutionize the way people grow their own food in cold climates?

My favorite way to serve late-season spinach is to saute it slightly in a good olive oil. I also prefer it to lettuce in my sandwiches. Click here to tell me your ideas for spinach.