Barb Tholin

Barb Tholin is editor and co-publisher of Edible Grand Traverse, an award-winning magazine that celebrates the seasonal and regional foods of northwest Lower Michigan.

Tholin is a Chicago area native who remembers fondly her frequent trips back to the family farm east of Grand Rapids. She sites those visits to her grandfather’s farm as bringing to life the stories her mother told of her own childhood--churning butter and butchering hogs and making sauerkraut in the crocks in the cellar. The traditions left an imprint; Tholin later moved to northern Vermont to study agronomy and rural resource management, along the way working with sheep, dairy cows, draft horses, and organic market gardening and farmers markets. Managing a coop's fresh food sales in the burgeoning natural foods business during the past twenty years was the perfect way for Tholin to share her passion for foods and farming with others.

She is delighted that as a publisher, she can support the farming community by spreading the word on Michigan’s great and accessible foods and drink. For more information, visit www.ediblecommunities.com/grandetraverse.