Up here the good food never went away. It just got quiet.
MICHIGAN'S UPPER PENINSULA
A farm down a gravel road with a hand-painted sign. A butcher shop that's been in the same family for decades. Eggs sold out of a cooler on somebody's porch.
This page is where I keep track of them, as I find them. Listings are free, and nobody pays to be here. I do my best to make sure the folks I list are organic and grass-fed, but ask them yourself too. Good producers don't mind the questions.
Winter is the hard part. The markets close and most folks fall back on the grocery store. That's exactly when knowing a name and a phone number matters most.
KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THIS FARM
Pine Creek Farm, LLC
Vulcan, MI — W4814 County Road 573
Beef and pork shares: half beef, quarter beef, meat boxes, ground, and pork boxes.
Grain-finished. Not grass-finished, and he doesn't pretend otherwise.
Farm pickup and local delivery.
Order online: pinecreekcattle.com
He's got ideas, and he understands how the market actually runs, but he hasn't bent his standards to work it. He's raising to meet what his neighbors need, at a price they can plan around. That's a small operation thinking three moves ahead. Watch this one.
Facebook: facebook.com/pinecreekfarmboarding
Butchers & meat counters
Please ask your butcher where the meat is sourced from.
CRYSTAL FALLS
Sommers Sausage Shop — 1370 Commercial Ave — (906) 874-6032
ESCANABA
Buried Stone Farms — 1519 Sheridan Road — (906) 261-1505
IRON MOUNTAIN
Northside Meat Shop — 609 Vulcan St — (906) 779-2181
Crispigna's Italian Market — 710 Norway St — (906) 774-0266 — Italian market with a meat counter
IRONWOOD
Whitney Creek Farm, LLC — N7803 Siirila Rd — (906) 932-0253 — Icelandic sheep and Berkshire hogs
KINGSFORD
Central Super Market — 1205 W Breen Ave — (906) 774-1323 — grocery store with a meat counter
NORWAY
Borderland Specialty Meats, Foods and Smokehouse — 1033 Main St — (906) 563-8590
QUINNESEC
Trails End Sausage Co — 561 Melen St — (906) 282-8574
VULCAN
Pine Creek Cattle Farm — fresh farm beef — text (906) 221-0753
Produce & eggs
Nobody listed here yet.
If you grow vegetables, or sell eggs off the porch, or know somebody who does, tell me. Farms that sell both get one listing, with the eggs right alongside the produce. It costs nothing to be here.
Bakeries
IRON MOUNTAIN
Crispigna's Italian Market — 710 Norway St — (906) 774-0266 — Italian market and bakery
If you bake with real ingredients, or you know another one around here that does, tell me. Same deal as everyone else: free to be listed, and nobody pays for placement.
Get listed. It's free.
If you raise, grow, bake, or cut something honest up here, you belong on this list. There's no fee and no catch. Nobody pays for placement and I don't sell ads.
Run a completely stainless steel operation, with no plastic touching the product? I'll advertise you for free.
Don't have a website? I build simple ones for small producers and hand over the login, so you own it outright. That part I charge a setup fee for.
Send your name, your town, what you sell, and how people should reach you. Or schedule a call up top and we'll talk it through.