Long Lake Culinary Campus Takes Shape

News from Our Friends at Tamarack Holdings and Food for Thought. Tamarack Holdings, a group of local and regional food enterprises and niche agri-business interests, has re-imagined the vacant Long Lake Elementary School and surrounding grounds. This facility is now being artfully re-purposed though a creative reconstruction effort. Unique agri-business production and education facility. Lease…

GTFA Board Member Offers Legal Services at Food Hub

GTFA board member, Kate Redman, a long-time legal service provider to food-related businesses throughout Northwest Michigan, is offering free 30-minute walk-in legal sessions as part of her new business Commonplace Practice. Redman will have hours available by appointment to food-related businesses on Friday afternoons at the Food Innovation Hub.  You can make an appointment with…

GT Foodshed Alliance and the GT Food Innovation Hub

By Rob Sirrine MSU Extension and GT Foodshed Alliance The nonprofit Grand Traverse Foodshed Alliance (GTFA) has partnered with regional food distributor, Cherry Capital Foods, to realize a “Food Innovation Hub” (FIH) in Traverse City. Development of the FIH will help GTFA and community partners make progress toward their overarching goal— a goal shared by…