Many thanks to the Traverse City Record Eagle for their write-up on The Alluvion. You can read the full article HERE.

The Alluvion is a new state-of-the-art performance venue located at 414 E. 8th Street in Traverse City (in the new Commongrounds Cooperative building). It's a highly anticipated addition to the city's cultural landscape and is set to bring new and exciting entertainment experiences to our community. The venue boasts thoughtful design with state-of-the-art sound, lighting and video technology, making it the perfect destination for concerts, theater productions, and other live performances.

Scott Hocking, alum of the Crosshatch Hill House artist residency program, has a retrospective of his work at Cranbrook Art Museum. If you are anywhere near Bloomfield Hills, Michigan between now and March 12, 2023, go see this show. You won’t regret it.

David and Joy Omar of Saltless Sea Creamery have finally found a home for their cheese business.

With ten days remaining, we have met our campaign goal of $50,000, which will be matched by $50,000 from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC). Now you can help us unlock another match of $15,000 from the Green Brick Foundation.

The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the North Central Extension Risk Management Education Center have awarded $50,000 to Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology to launch the Carbon Farming Planning Cohorts program.

On August 3rd, the Traverse City Dance Project will perform works of contemporary dance at the Crosshatch Meadow, just north of Glacial Hills Pathway and Natural Area in Bellaire.

Brad Kik, co-director and co-founder of Crosshatch Center for Art & Ecology, has been awarded a three week artist residency at Pine Meadow Ranch Center for Arts & Agriculture in Sisters, Oregon. Chosen from over 80 applicants, Brad is one of 26 artists selected for this award.

We held an online session to share information about applying to our zero-interest microloan program and to hear perspectives on applying and completing food and farm microloan projects from past program recipients.

Farmers, home-scale growers, students, food producers and eaters will gather at the Northern Michigan Small Farm Conference—that is, over the internet. The pandemic has driven another year’s conference to the web, but this year the conference is more than twice the size. What hasn’t changed: a chance to network, share ideas and gain new skills that will make small farms in Michigan more economically viable and environmentally sustainable.