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Are you a fellow Michigander? Here are the sources I will gladly stand behind. Their products are fabulous, otherwise I wouldn’t tell you about them.

Benton Harbor/St. Joseph: The Livery (Beer!  Great Beer!  Downtown Benton Harbor); Contessa Wine Cellars (wonderful wine, Coloma); The Chocolate Garden (not exactly local chocolate, but yummy; Coloma)

Grand Rapids and environs:
West Michigan Co-Op (your one-stop shop); Farms without Harm (Holland: another cooperative of farmers); Funny Farm Organic Produce (Grant: Year-round CSA); Creswick Farms (Ravenna: grass-fed meat); Groundswell Community Farm (Zeeland: CSA with organic produce and chicken); Steve-N-Sons Grassfield Cheeses (Coopersville: raw-milk cheese)

Fennville/Douglas/Glenn:
Salt of the Earth(Fennville: all towns should have their own fabulous locally-sourced restaurant); Evergreen Lane Creamery (goat’s milk cheeses); Kismet Organics (organic berries)

Bangor: Eaters’ Guild (Year-round organic produce/CSA); Blue Dog Greens (organic produce)

Kalamazoo and environs:People’s Food Co-Op (downtown); KalCarbon Acres (Mattawan Artisan Creamery):  Mattawan, goat cheeses

Michigan Flour: Ferris Organic Farms (Eaton Rapids: Their own flours, other local bulk products); Jennings Bros. Stone-Ground Flours (Nashville: Their own flours from their grains)

Michigan Sugar: Go to the Thumb! (Bay City: Michigan Sugar Company cooperative; sugar from sugarbeets. Sugar is a very refined product, but sugarbeets in this state so far are GMO-free.)

Michigan Oil: Zeeland: Zoye Select Oil (non-GMO low-saturated fat soybean oil)