We would love your input on our giving. Please email us a few paragraphs about who you will be donating to this December and why; and if you give your time to the group as well.
Starting on this Saturday, December 1st, we will send out checks of $500 to $10,000 to organizations in Northern Michigan […]
We had some wild weather in the past month. My friend Charlie Crouch snapped this photo on Sleeping Bear Bay during a big storm.
Here is a video of the winds 1000 miles from Hurricane Sandy.
Colebrook and Hawthorn OD’d on candy.
The boys playing on a giant nest of sticks.
Hawthorn posing with a hatchet before […]
Since I was 14, I’ve had a dream of being in politics. Well, I got my chance at 30. I ran and won a seat on the Leelanau County Board of Commissioners. Being a commissioner was without question, the toughest thing I have ever done. I should have just done one term and gotten back to […]
When we grew up, there was an old map of the Sleeping Bear Dunes in our house. There is a mark on the map, just north of the dune climb and just west of the DH Day farm called Devil’s Hole. My brothers and I would speculate on what that spot was and why it […]
(Continued from the 10/18 Orchard Report)
And of course they were not at all surprised when I jumped out and yelled, “Raaarrrr.” I went to run ahead again, and they followed me as fast as they could so they could see me hide again. All the way down the trail I tried to hide but they […]
We loved the moss on these old cedar posts
A line of trees acting as a fence row.
H looking pretty small under those big trees
A smart farmer long ago planted a black walnut tree that is now huge. The squirrels get the nuts now.
A small clue to the “Where is this” photo contest. We were there […]
Each week we will feature at least one product in the Orchard Report, our email newsletter…sometimes at a discount, other times simply because we love it so much!
This week….Cherry Pumpkin Cake! A rich, buttery frosted pumpkin cake with plump dried cherries and the perfect combination of fall spices. Perfect for two to share! Learn more […]
The first person to email us here who can correctly identify where this picture was taken will win a Cherry Republic gift box! Be as specific as possible, the judges will need to be convinced that you know the answer. We’ll post the correct answer as soon as someone gets it right!
HALLOWEEN (Week 5) PHOTO:
Congrats to Nancy […]
From the looks of it, things have calmed down quite a bit around town after Labor Day. But as there once used to be a saying that you could shoot a gun down M22 and not hit a thing after the start of the month, that’s not so true these days. Still, it’s a gentle […]
When the media asks me, The Bear, whether Cherry Republic sales are up this summer because of the Good Morning America’s coverage. I growl that we are, but is our growth rate curve steeper than other years? Not significantly.
Whatever the level of impact our most beautiful designation had, our region is being discovered by the […]
