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Grand Traverse Bay Sunset Leaves Me Wordless

By on June 12, 2012 in photo, travel

Photos from a perch in the Grand Traverse Bay resort’s Amerie bar and restaurant. If you are interested in why I’m in Michigan, feel free to listen to a couple of the podcasts in my Cinch.FM feed in the right-hand column.

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one of the young calves in the nursery

Discovering the Dairy at SwissLane Farms in Michigan

By on March 21, 2012 in ag awareness, agriculture

When I found out that I would get to go to Michigan for the Young Farmers & Ranchers Conference, I was immediately jazzed as I knew friends Annie & Jerry Link lived outside of Grand Rapids. They had invited me to visit her family’s dairy farm. Here’s an overview of what I saw. I will [...]

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The Faces & Futures of America’s Young Farmers & Ranchers

By on February 20, 2012 in social media

I spent this weekend at the American Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers & Ranchers Leadership Conference. The event was theme “Your Voice, Our Story” and was helping people see that there is a big picture, shared story of agriculture that we need more farmers and ranchers telling in their voice. It wasn’t the sort of event [...]

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Awesome Time with Michigan Dairy Farmers

By on February 21, 2011 in ag awareness, agriculture, animal ag, food, social media, travel

I’ve written a few blog posts about my recent trip to Michigan so I doubt I surprise anyone with another blog post about the trip, but it may surprise you that I saved the best for last. Granted, the snow sculptures, cherry muffins, etc were great, but the biggest benefit for me was getting to [...]

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Michigan cherry muffins

Yummy Michigan Cherry Muffins!

By on February 13, 2011 in ag awareness, agriculture, children, food, travel

One of the best parts of travel is getting to taste local specialties. That was certainly what I had in mind recently when I found myself hungry for breakfast in Michigan and looking at these! But I had to pause and ask the cashier what she thought of the cherry muffins. She immediately said “They [...]

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Beautiful Red Barns for Wordless Wednesday

By on February 9, 2011 in ag awareness, agriculture, photo, travel, weather

Growing up down south & working on mostly cropping farms, the beauty of big red wooden barns in other parts of the country always means taking a photo or two. Here are some I saw while riding along with Ashley Messing last week.

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Snow & Ice Sculpture Gardens in Frankenmuth, Michigan

By on February 5, 2011 in travel

There are times when travel adversity really works in you favor. And I had just that happen on Saturday as I was supposed to leave Michigan where I’d been to work with the ambassador program of the Great Lakes Regional Dairy Conference. I had flown into the Midland-Bay City-Saginaw airport and my friend Ashley Messing [...]

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