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Apple Orchards
Alber's Orchard and Cider Mill
Almar Orchards - organic apples, hard cider, pear wine (in Flushing, MI)
Dexter Cider Mill (Dexter, MI)
The Frosty Apple (Dexter, MI)
Erie Orchards (Erie, MI)
Kapnick Orchard (Britton, MI)
Lesser Farms and Orchard (Dexter, MI)
Lutz Orchard (Saline, MI)
Obstbaum Orchard and Cider Mill (Salem, MI)
Salem Orchard - apples, grapes (Salem Twp., MI)
Wasem Fruit Farm (Milan, MI)
Windy Ridge Orchard and Cider Mill (Saline, MI)
Wolfe Orchard - apples, chestnuts (Tipton, MI)
Beer
Arbor Brewing Company (Ann Arbor, MI)
Corner Brewery (Ypsilanti, MI)
Grizzly Peak (Ann Arbor, MI)
Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales (Dexter, MI)
Blueberries (organic)
The Blueberry Patch (Grass Lake, MI)
Bread/Baguettes
Avalon International Breads (Detroit, MI)
Café Japon (Ann Arbor, MI)
Mill Pond Bread (Chelsea, MI)
Jeff Renner (Ann Arbor, MI)
River Street Bakery (Ypsilanti, MI)
Zingerman's Bakehouse (Ann Arbor, MI)
Butter
Chocolate
Grocer's Daughter (Empire, MI)
Sweet Gem Confections (Ann Arbor, MI)
Cheese (Michigan Cheese Manufacturers)
Black Star Farms Creamery/Leelanau Cheese Company - raclette! (Suttons Bay, MI)
Four Corners Creamery (from the Aylwards in Tecumseh) - available at The Produce Station in AA and the Boulevard Market in Tecumseh
S Serra Cheese Company - ricotta, mozzarella (Clinton Twp., MI)
Steve-N-Sons Grassfields Cheese - organic and raw milk cheese (Coopersville, MI)
Traffic Jam and Snug - (Detroit, MI)
Zingerman's Creamery - goat and cow's milk fresh cheeses (Ann Arbor, MI)
Cider
Dexter Cider Mill - cider, apples, pies, donunts (Dexter, MI)
Wasem Fruit Farm - U-pick apples (many varieties), pumpkins, honey, donuts (Milan, MI)
Coffee Roasters
Condiments
Jam - Food for Thought, American Spoon
Salsas - Sansonetti
Croissants
The Croissant Shop (Ann Arbor)
Cafe Japon (Ann Arbor)
Dairy
Calder Dairy and Farm - Milk, Cream, Buttermilk, Yogurt (Carleton, MI)
Guernsey Farms Dairy - Milk, Butter, Ice Cream, etc. (Novi, MI)
Stucchi's - Ice cream, custom flavors too (Saline, MI)
Eggs
Ernst Farm (Ann Arbor, MI)
Grandma's Kitchen (Rockport, MI)
John Harnois Happy Hens - available at the People's Food Coop! (Hamburg, MI)
Our Family Farm (Manchester, MI)
Ernst Farm -(whole wheat, cornmeal and more (Ann Arbor, MI)
Jennings Bros. Stone Ground Grains (Nashville, MI)
Westwind Milling - all purpose, whole wheat, graham, pastry and more (Argentine, MI)
Honey
Fifth Street
Maple Syrup
Snow's Sugar Bush (Mason, MI)
Markets
Bello Vino Marketplace (have their own farm)
Meat
Butcher - Sparrow Meat Market
Chicken - Ernst Farm (Ann Arbor), Earthshine (Durand), Aric VanNatter (Dexter), Back Forty Acres
Lamb - Hannewald, Ambry
Pork - Apple Schram, Almar Orchard, Back Forty Acres, Old Pine Farm
Meat - Back Forty Acres
Meat - TMZ Farm
Meat CSA - Old Pine Farm
Turkeys - Ernst Farm, Fletcher Farm, John Harnois, Aric VanNatter, Our Family Farm
Milk
Pasta
Al Dente Pasta (Whitmore Lake, MI)
Eden Organic - (Clinton, MI)
Pastabilities
Raspberries (U-pick, no pesticides)
Tofu
Tortillas
Local Chefs/Restaurants Using Local Food
Silvio Medoro - Silvio's Organic Pizza (Ann Arbor, MI)
Eve Aranoff - Eve (Ann Arbor, MI)
Nick Seccia - Greenfield Village (Dearborn, MI)
Eric Villegas - Restaurant Villegas (Lansing, MI)
Brian Polcyn - Five Lakes Grill (Milford, MI)
Rodger Bowser - Zingerman's Deli (Ann Arbor, MI)
Alex Young - Zingerman's Roadhouse (Ann Arbor, MI)
Craig Common - Common Grill (Chelsea, MI)
Aaron Cozadd - Clarkston Cafe (Clarkston, MI)
Wine
Sandhill Crane Vineyards - (Jackson, MI)