Buying local and fresh produce supports family farms and keeps working farms in agriculture. Photo courtesy Ken Scott (kenscottphotography.com), and Michigan Land Use Institute.

Fresh local produce! What could taste better?

The 2009 Taste the Local Difference guide is a complete list of farms, wineries, and other businesses that offer fresh, locally grown food products in northwest Lower Michigan.

Taste the Local Difference promotes local farm foods, helps schools serve them, links new farmers to land and other resources, and supports food and farm business networks.

To locate local farms, produce, wineries, farmers markets and retail shops, there is a very helpful search box in the middle of their website. For those of you interested in learning to farm, there is even a “Get Farming” link.

If you’ve never been to this region, it makes a great vacation spot with miles of beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline to enjoy. Support the local farms if you go!

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