Building on the first Land-Based Summit momentum, we’re excited to host virtual gatherings for farmers, artists, creatives, and land stewards to connect, share projects, and seek input from the Crosshatch team and fellow community members.
Building on the first Land-Based Summit momentum, we’re excited to host virtual gatherings for farmers, artists, creatives, and land stewards to connect, share projects, and seek input from the Crosshatch team and fellow community members.
All are welcome for a spring season plant maintenance and new planting of perennial edible plants. Edible and climate-adaptive trees are available to take for planting at home until they run out.
Christine Maul Rice will be giving a reading from her book, Swarm Theory, at Bee Well Mead & Cider. This event is free, but please register.
Join us at Grass River Natural Area Education Center for a fiction writing workshop with Christine Maul Rice. This event is free, but please register.
The 2025 conference will be held August 18-19 at The Leelanau School in Glen Arbor, MI, with additional farm-based experiences nearby.
Save the date for a day of learning, collaboration, connections, and creative thinking to explore how agriculture and creative experiences on the land can work together!
Come to discuss and plan collaboration for small farm employment and career building in NW lower Michigan.
Join the Conversation: Land-Based Project Support Call
Building on the momentum of the first Land-Based Summit, we’re excited to host virtual gatherings for farmers, artists, creatives, and land stewards to connect, share projects, and seek input from the Crosshatch team and fellow community members.
Join the Conversation: Land-Based Project Support Call
Building on the momentum of the first Land-Based Summit, we’re excited to host virtual gatherings for farmers, artists, creatives, and land stewards to connect, share projects, and seek input from the Crosshatch team and fellow community members.
A new community artist program supporting emerging local musicians. Be among the first to experience our regions rising talent and support their journey as the set sail as an artist!
Come discuss tips and tricks for establishing trees and shrubs this upcoming growing season.
Crosshatch turns 20 and Brad Kik turns 50! We’re throwing a benefit concert to mark this milestone occasion and you're invited to celebrate with a pre-show gathering, a legendary listening room lineup, and a free after party.
Come discuss tips and tricks for farm purchasing for the upcoming growing season. Bring your seed & feed catalogs and a computer to talk about and make smart purchases together.
Crosshatch invites you to a day of learning, collaboration, connections, and creative thinking to explore how agriculture and creative experiences on the land can work together!
Discuss collaboration between farms to improve soil health, water quality and resilience to weather extremes.
Come discuss intersections between community materials management, farm soil health, and local food economic success.
SPEND A DAY WITH LAVENDER… to nourish our spiritsand bodies, build our relationship with the human and non-human world, and protectthe waters we love.
MORNING SESSION (11 am to 1 pm)
A guided tour of Full Circle Lavender Farm with owner Joe Adams, including an overview of sustainable practices and land stewardship at the farm, a dive into the lavender cultivation and distillation process, product demos, tastings, Q&A, and yummy snacks.
Full Circle Lavender Farm • 8000 S Shimek Rd, Maple City, MI 49664
EVENING SESSION (5 to 7 pm)
Reconvene at the Aviary art gallery in Commongrounds for a simple but nourishing dinner, lavender sachet making, printmaking art show, and most of all, making and strengthening connections with each other.
The Aviary at Commongrounds • 414 E. Eighth St, Traverse City, MI 49684
This event is FREE to all, but please register here.
Presented by Great Lakes Creatives and Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology, with support from Culture Source and Springboard for the Arts. You’re invited to attend one or both of our sessions.
Join fellow farmers and over a dozen farmer support organizations to connect and take the first steps toward farm funding, soil health, conservation, and business improvements.
8:30 - 11:00 am Tableside advice available in person in Kalkaksa at Railroad Square Pavilion 8:30 - 11:00
9:00 - 10:00 Presentations from specific support programs will be available BOTH in-person AND online streaming (join live online directly from your own farm).
10:00 am Microloan application launch (live and on Zoom) - community partners for the NW Michigan Food and Farm Microloan ( Grain Train, Oryana, and Kalkaska Economic Development Corporation) will be launching the live application for zero-interest loans ($500 up to $10,000). Read more here and join us to celebrate another year of boosting our local food and farm economy.
This year’s conference hub will be Grow Benzie, a rural prosperity incubator in Benzonia, Michigan. Farm tours and workshops will take place throughout Manistee, Benzie and Leelenau Counties.
Holistic Mangement Land Planning is a process that will help you to create a vision and plan for creating the farm landscape that will satisfy your goals and values.
This will be an opportunity for farmers who offer farm stays through platforms like Hipcamp, Harvest Host, Airbnb, etc. discuss their experiences with others interested in doing the same. Join in person OR ONLINE.
Join us to engage in the steps of land planning for farming and ecological function through a Holistic Management® framework using the example of the Crosshatch headquarters property in Bellaire, MI.
Join us for a panel discussion with the artists and elders that participated in the program, along with a performance by Blake Elliot. Tickets are available for $20 on the Alluvion website, www.thealluvion.org.
Join us for a free reception to view and celebrate the work that was produced for the Long Memory Project. Cash bar.
Work produced at the Long Memory Project pop-up residency will be on display at The Alluvion from June 8 to July 14.
Join us to discuss the impacts of toxic built environments on human health & chronic illness. Panelists will offer methods to create homes that are more healthy, affordable, & harmonious with nature
All are welcome for a spring season plant maintenance and new planting of perennial edible plants. Edible and climate-adaptive trees are available to take for planting at home until they run out.
During this tour at 9 Bean Rows, we will explore the beneficial practice of no-till farming for diversified vegetable crops and discuss its impact on farming success.
Join us for a presentation of local farm perspectives on ecological agriculture, on-farm conservation measures and climate smart farming. Come to learn about and discuss promising practices and community support for climate smart farming and land management from backyard to business-scale.
On this tour, we will discuss ways to increase the diversity of farm products and income streams. Ben and Brittany McMurray will share their experiences in year-round stewardship for pastured pigs. They will showcase synergies between crop production and livestock.
The goal of this event is to increase connections and collaborations between similar organizations. Develop stronger relationships with your peers.
The goal of this event is to increase connections and collaborations between similar organizations. Develop stronger relationships with your peers.
On this tour, we will demonstrate and discuss the carbon sequestration and storage potential through intensive land management strategies, including management intensive grazing and biochar production.
The Northern Michigan Small Farm Conference Tour will be held on Antrim/Charlevoix County farms on Monday, August 14th. Full details are available at www.smallfarmconference.com.
On this tour, we will discuss the benefits and challenges of establishing a broad array of edible and medicinal plants. We will also describe opportunities to diversify the small farm economy and ecology through U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conservation program offerings, especially Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) programs.
All are welcome for a spring season plant maintenance and new planting of perennial edible plants. Edible and climate-adaptive trees are available to take for planting at home until they run out.
