Saturday, April 26, 2008

'Locavores' taking root
New movement: Eat food from where you live

PINCKNEY

Two hundred buffalo roam free here, nibbling on grasses, milling about and following the lead of Lakota, the 1-ton sire responsible for 30 calves a year.

Ignore the wooden gates at the 80-acre TMZ Farm, look past the electric wires, and it's easy to imagine that this is what the plains may have looked like a few hundred years ago before buffalo -- technically bison -- were hunted to near extinction.

TMZ owner Kevin MacRitchie now sells about 100 a year as meat. Sales have increased 35 percent a year since he brought them to the farm in 2000, he said. He also sells scores of beef cattle each year, partly because customers are becoming more involved with their food.

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• PINCKNEY COMMUNITY RODEO
• Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Activities
• Memorial Day Parade
• Art in the Park
• Hootin’ in the Park
• Pumpkins in the Park
• Light Up the Park
• Classic Cars around the Square
• Pinckney Athletic Boosters
• Pinckney Band Boosters
• Pinckney Merchant’s Association
• Pinckney-Lakeland-Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
• Putnam Township Fire Department
• Pinckney Police Department
• Great Sauk Trail Boy Scouts
• Pinckney-Lakeland-Hamburg Girl Scouts
• PYRATS
• Movies in the Park
• Annual Homecoming Parade and Events
• Annual Hunter’s Buck Pole and Contest