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Ashlyn’s Picks: 12 Spring Events to Round Out Your Weekend

Ashlyn’s Picks: 12 Spring Events to Round Out Your Weekend

We’re looking forward to another beautiful spring weekend in Northern Michigan! Explore these 12 local events and festivals taking place from May 18-21. Hosting an event? Let us know! info@mynorth.com. This is a web original article from the team at MyNorth Media and...

Ashlyn’s Picks: 15 Spring Events to Explore This Weekend

Ashlyn’s Picks: 15 Spring Events to Explore This Weekend

It's shaping up to be a beautiful spring weekend! If you're searching for the perfect way to get outdoors and explore the vibrant food, arts and small towns around Northern Michigan, here are 15 events taking place from May 12-14. Hosting an event? Let us know!...

May Events 2023: Mother’s Day, Memorial Weekend & Wine Month

May Events 2023: Mother’s Day, Memorial Weekend & Wine Month

With spring in full bloom, there are plenty of reasons to celebrate May in Northern Michigan! From Mother's Day brunches to Wine Month excursions, outdoor festivals and foodie adventures, here are 30+ Northern Michigan events to explore this month. Hosting an event?...

A Wild Foraged Dinner Featuring Morel Mushrooms & Lake Trout

A Wild Foraged Dinner Featuring Morel Mushrooms & Lake Trout

Northern Michigan outdoorsman and cook Keefer Edwards offers up some of his favorite dishes, honored over years roaming the lakes and forest of his childhood backyard in Glen Arbor. This article first appeared in Traverse Northern Michigan. Find this story and more...

Tips for Morel Hunting in Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore

Tips for Morel Hunting in Sleeping Bear Dunes Lakeshore

PAID CONTENT Here in Northern Michigan, spring means we’re hunting for morel mushrooms, and one favorite spot is Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. A tell-tale sign foraging season has begun? Cars parked alongside M-22, their occupants walking toward the hills,...

Create a Foraged Feast with Morels in Northern Michigan

Create a Foraged Feast with Morels in Northern Michigan

The gifts of Northern Michigan's woods find a place at our table as friends combine their talents for a foraged meal and nature-inspired decor. Featured in the May 2020 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Subscribe. What happens when good friends walk a...

A Traverse City Wine Dinner Event You Have to Experience

A Traverse City Wine Dinner Event You Have to Experience

PAID CONTENT An intimate Traverse City wine dinner brings together new friends and old to delight in the magic of expert wine and food pairings at Chateau Chantal.We turn onto a winding drive named Rue de Vin. The French words translate to "street of wine," aptly...

How to Find Morels: Tips from a Pro Forager

How to Find Morels: Tips from a Pro Forager

A forager returns to Northern Michigan to roam her homeland seeking morels and a connection with her father. (Bonus: Tips on how to find morels below!) Featured in the May 2018 issue of Traverse Magazine. Get your copy. My father has secured us an orchard. It’s an old...

6 Tips For Finding Morel Mushrooms in Northern Michigan

6 Tips For Finding Morel Mushrooms in Northern Michigan

After years of hunting for morel mushrooms, Eric LaPaugh, owner of Leelanau Adventures, has a lot of experience looking for the tasty morsels. Try these six tips for finding morel mushrooms in Northern Michigan. Timing is everything Morels grow best in spring,...

5 Tips to Find More Morels in Northern Michigan

5 Tips to Find More Morels in Northern Michigan

Improve your odds of finding morels in Northern Michigan with this hunter’s tip sheet. Cut it out, tape it to the fridge. It’s a distillation of tips from several morel experts whose advice we’ve tapped over the years. Know the concept of micro-environment. For...

Delicious Spring Recipes with Traverse City Chef Pete Peterson

Delicious Spring Recipes with Traverse City Chef Pete Peterson

Renowned Traverse City Chef Pete Peterson shares some of his favorite spring recipes with Traverse food and wine editor Tim Tebeau. It’s May in the North. Lowland patches pop with the green gyres of fiddlehead ferns, black morels flush under big tooth aspen, and...

Morel Mushrooms: How to Find, Store and Cook Morels

Morel Mushrooms: How to Find, Store and Cook Morels

Tips on morels and morel mushroom hunting, as well as the how-to on cleaning morels as well as storing morels to cook with in the future.

Morel Hunting in Northern Michigan

Morel Hunting in Northern Michigan

English instructor James McCullough, at North Central Michigan College, in Petoskey, asked his students to write essays about Northern Michigan life. Then he asked MyNorth to share six of the essays on the World Wide Web. We said yes. We are posting one each weekday...

The North’s Most Renowned Morel Mushroom Hunter Shares His Secrets

The North’s Most Renowned Morel Mushroom Hunter Shares His Secrets

Carrie Tebeau heads into the woods with the North’s most renowned morel mushroom hunter, Ken Harris, to see what he’s doing that the rest of us aren’t. This article is featured in the May 2015 issue of Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine. Get your copy! Clouds of...