Meet the husband-and-wife team behind our local Michigan shrimp, Carol and Stephen Karas. Founded in 2024, By the Bay Shrimp Company was created with a clear purpose: to provide our community with fresh, sustainably raised shrimp, grown right here in
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Order your 2025 Holiday Rib Roast
Planning a holiday meal centered around a beautiful rib roast? You can now place your rib roast order with our meat team and have it cut just the way you want it. Using our simple order form, you’ll be able
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The Fight Against Hunger in Our Community
Article written by: Rachael Cougler An Aside from Oryana We reached out to the Northwest Food Coalition to be our November Groceries for Good recipient before news broke of the USDA’s pause on the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program). As
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National Co-op Month: Meet the Cooperative Businesses Supporting Traverse City Communities
Traverse City is lucky to have so many co-ops in our community. From keeping the lights on, to teaching kids, or growing our local food, co-ops help our region thrive. Here are a few of Oryana’s cooperative neighbors. Cherryland Electric
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Thoughtful Gifts, Locally Made and Lovingly Curated
The holidays are the perfect time to share something thoughtful, local, and full of meaning. Oryana’s curated gift baskets make it easy to give a personalized gift that celebrates good living and supports our community. Each basket is hand-built by
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A Visit to Full Circle Lavender Farms
Joseph Adams, Owner and Founder of Full Circle Lavender Farms in Maple City, MI Lavender Fields Forever We recently had the joy of visiting Oryana employee turned farmer Joe at his family-run farm, Full Circle Lavender. It was inspiring to
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Carter’s Compost Receives a Microloan
Carter’s Compost has been keeping food scraps out of the landfill and nourishing Traverse City’s soil since 2012. Originally started by a young boy named Carter as a neighborhood project, the business has since grown and found new life under
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Fantastic Food From Finland – From the Pen of Greenspire School Student, Caleb Hall
This blog was written by Caleb Hall, a student at The Greenspire School, as part of a class project called Food for Good. In this project, 11th and 12th grade students explore how food, and how we write about it,
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Third Spaces Create Community – Written by Dana Pflughoeft
Third spaces create what we think of as community. They are often the underlying reason we choose to stay. If home is our first space, work our second, then third spaces are the shared, special places where we seek enjoyment,
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