Tag Archives: Ypsi Food Co-op

The Festival of the Honey Bee, and the campaign to make Ypsi more pollinator-friendly

By Mark | July 14, 2015

A few weeks ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded a grant to local bee activist Jamie Berlin to help ensure that Ypsilant’s Festival of the Honey Bee can continue on into the future. Following is my discussion with Jamie about how the festival came about, what we can expect from this year’s event, and […]

Posted in A2Awesome, Environment, Food, Uncategorized | Also tagged apiary, Bee City USA, bees, Bike2Bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, food security, honey bees, Jamie Berlin, Karl von Frisch, Lisa Bashert, Meghan Milbrath, pollinators, The Silence of the Bees, Ypsi Melissa | 11 Comments

Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Erica Mooney

By Mark | June 8, 2015

I think I first met Erica Mooney about four years ago. If I recall correctly, she’d written to me through the blog and asked if I’d meet up with her to talk about Ypsilanti. My sense was that she was talking with a lot of folks around town, trying to figure out how best she […]

Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Abundant Michigan Permaculture Ypsilanti, Autobiography of a Yogi, Climate Action Plan, Council: A Senior Passage, dreams, Erica Mooney, food forests, Gaylord, Heather Wysor, Lisa Bashert, Paramahansa Yogananda, permaculture, Pioneer High School, possessions, Scio Township, season extension, simplifying, Song of the Morning, Surthrival, systems thinking, Unity Ride, Water Street Commons, yoga, Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interviews | 9 Comments

The campaign to get Eden Foods products off our local co-op shelves

By Mark | March 14, 2015

Presently there are movements afoot, both in Ann Arbor and in Ypsilanti, to pull products by Eden Foods off the shelves of our respective food co-ops. Following is a conversation with Georgina Hickey, who is leading the charge in Ypsilanti, and Ann Rogers, who is doing the same in Ann Arbor, explaining why, in their […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Civil Liberties, Ypsilanti | Also tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, Ann Rogers, boycotts, Cheryl Farmer, co-ops, contraception, Dan Gillotte, Eden Foods, Georgina Hickey, GMO, Hobby Lobby, Michael Potter, National Organization for Women, NOW, old white men making decisions on women's health, People's Food Co-op, petitions, religious extremism, reproductive justice, soy, soymilk, Supreme Court, Wheatsville, women's health | 70 Comments

EMU venturing into the community, making damn good videos

By Mark | March 18, 2014

I’m not sure what I was expecting when I heard that the Eastern Michigan University office of Campus Life had produced a video about the Ypsi Food Co-op, but I was pleasantly surprised when, after thinking about it for a few days, I finally sat down and watched what they’d come up with… Here it […]

Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged Eastern Michigan University, EMU | 6 Comments

Ypsi Immigration Interview: Sarah Zawacki

By Mark | December 1, 2013

Thanks to my network of well-compensated spies, I was just recently tipped off to the existence of today’s interview subject, Sarah Zawacki. Sadly, our interview had already concluded when it was brought to my attention that she shared her home with a domesticated hedgehog by the name of Mabel (seen below), so I didn’t get […]