organic farming

On Tuesday, we will finish up voting in the 2024 election cycle. Food and consumer prices and the economy have been right at the top of the issues people are concerned about. Putting politics aside, the folks at the Ypsilanti Food Co-op have been first-person witnesses to the impacts of these issues. General manager Corinne Sikorski joined WEMU's David Fair with her perspective on what it has meant to the bottom line and to the customers the co-op serves in our community.

Project Grow in Washtenaw County is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2022, and we’ll look back on five decades of community gardening and advocacy for sustainable gardens in Ann Arbor and beyond. WEMU's David Fair is joined by Project Grow managing director Kirk Jones to discuss the lessons learned in the first 50 years and what the immediate and longer-term future holds.

The pandemic has impacted all parts of our economy, including the local agricultural community. But, there are positives that have resulted and reasons…

As we all continue both personally and in the business world to try and figure out our new reality in light of our current global health crisis, Washtenaw…

Washtenaw County is home to the only organic, U-pick farm in the state. Kim Bayer is the owner of Slow Farm in Ann Arbor and serves as Slow Food Governor…

This week, "Art and Soul" is about the culinary arts. 89.1 WEMU's Lisa Barry is joined by Jessica Webster and local organic farmer Kim Bayer to talk about…

On the road to recovery from drug and alcohol addiction, Melvin Parson inherited a small garden patch in Ann Arbor from a friend who had recently passed…

Michigan's bee population has been devastated. Monarch Butterflies are in swift decline. Our food, and landscaping habits, may be to blame.I’m at a “March…

Meet the Gold family from Superior Township. They've turned their land into an innovative, self-sustaining property. Overview The Gold family owns and…