1. Locally grown food tastes better. Food grown in your own community was probably picked within the past day or two. It's crisp, sweet and loaded with flavor. Produce flown or trucked in from California, Florida, Chile or Holland is, quite understandably, much older. Several studies have shown that the average distance food travels from farm to plate is 1,500 miles. In a week-long (or more) delay from harvest View More...
By Shelly Johnson
As I travel through the seasons of my life, I find precious memories in each one. I think of childhood, teen angst, college, career concerns, looking for love, becoming a wife and mother and now, enjoying them all. These memories blend together in my mind like the multi-colored leaves View More...
Buy American: Shoppers strive to buy products made in the U.S.
by Laura Misjak | Contributing writer
The Flint Journal
Tuesday December 23, 2008, 8:48 AM
Bonnie Petee is fed up, and after years of desperately seeking products made in the U.S., she set down an ultimatum for this year's holiday shopping: No "Made in China" labels. But the View More...
By Phil Stayhue VIEW Contributor Grand Blanc View, January 1, 2009
GOODRICH — Getting tired of hearing grim tales about the economic state of their State, Jim and Patti Travioli decided to battle back, by launching their own View More...
Our Made in Michigan products are now being sold on MadeinMichigan.com. Visit MadeinMichigan.com and support Michigan's economy and local Michigan businesses.
All of us are well aware that we are in the midst of some very difficult times here in Michigan. The media pounds it into our heads every day. Everyone of us have been touched in some way by loss of jobs, the collapse of the housing market, businesses leaving the state and jobs being sent overseas. Now is the time when we need to collectively pick ourselves up off the ground and dust ourselves off. We View More...
The idea behind SimplyMichigan.com is to bring our great Michigan products from great Michigan businesses to an easy to shop environment and present that environment to as many people as possible. We have found that most of these great products come from Michigan’s small business community. Michigan’s small businesses are going to be leading View More...
