April 2015
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A Little Lakeside Character
While many vacation home owners naturally just fall into calling their retreat “The Cottage” or “The Cabin,” just as many spend plenty of time conjuring up the perfect name to christen their getaway.
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Eat Pie, Love Life
Linda Hundt’s passion for “changing the world, one pie at a time” was sparked in childhood by an Easy-Bake Oven and the homemade goodness of her mother, grandmother and aunts.
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Great Escapes
Now and then we need to escape. It seems to be a basic human impulse. In military terms retreat is disgraceful unless tactical. Ours are tactical.
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Take Flight: Michigan Birding Adventures
Spring migration is one of Michigan’s best opportunities to view wildlife, a time when you encounter not dozens or even hundreds but often thousands of birds and waterfowl.
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Collected Charm
From the inevitable driftwood, Petoskey stones and beach glass — all treasures for the taking — assemblages of fishing reels, local maps, canoe paddles and vintage signs bloom in cottage getaways across the state.
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Tussle With the Mussel: Take Two
Marrone Bio Innovations, a California-based company, received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval in July last year for open-water use of a zebra mussel control product it named Zequanox.
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Cottages 2015: Contributors
Contributors, Cottages 2015
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Uncover a Personal Path to Quality Cottage Time Together
In the Great Lakes State, unique ways to the water’s edge and memorable cottage days abound.
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Little Cottages
Burger’s affinity for crafting these unique mini-domiciles was less long-held vision coming to fruition than it was hidden talent uncovered by circumstance.
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Washed Ashore
Pat Shinn thinks the best strategy for collecting beach glass is to simply walk the beach, and as often as you can swing it.
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Cottage & Lakefront Living Shows Heralding Tradition
As spring buds begin to bloom, thoughts turn to pulling sheets off furniture, returning chairs to their perches on the porch and readying docks for freshwater fun.
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Tapping Into Tradition
The sap from trees that’s used to make genuine maple syrup is more finicky than a spoiled cat. And with Michigan’s fickle weather, that can be a challenge when it comes to tapping and collecting the precious, clear liquid.
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Weather or Not
Cottagers who want to spruce up the outside of their special getaway may consider adding functional metal art that harnesses the power of Mother Nature.
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Introducing Great Lake Story 2015: Lakemore Retreat
This year lifelong water lovers Dean and Tricia Adams unfold their inspiration for Lakemore Retreat along one of Michigan’s most inviting, striking shorelines and its picturesque new custom offerings.
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Pathways to the Lake
Whether your taste tends to the natural and rustic, more formal or somewhere in between, there are many ways to transform the pathway that gets you to the lake, pond or stream you love into one that provides you with your own blessed release from care and worry.
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Slices of Good Life
The following recipes are excerpted from “Sweetie-licious Pies: Eat Pie, Love Life” by Linda Hundt, 19-time national pie-baking champion and retro-inspired owner of Sweetie-licious Bakery Café in Dewitt, East Grand Rapids and Grand Rapids Downtown Market.
