Kilcherman Apple Book Coming Very Soon!

Antique Apples from Kilcherman’s Christmas Cove Farm explores a very special farm the rolling hills of Leelanau Township. Phyllis and John Kilcherman grow 250 varieties of heirloom apples, varieties in danger of disappearing from our modern food supply. The book, coming soon from Arbutus Press, features Kilcherman family and farm history dating from the land's public offering by the U.S. Government in 1851. Color photos of the orchard in three seasons, photographed by Dianne Carroll Burdick, capture the living apple community from the bee’s pollination to apple harvest. Phyllis also shares recipes both traditional and creative uses of apples in meatloaf, coleslaw, and baked beans, as well as her most prized and sought-after recipe for apple pie from her grandmother. You’ll find folklore, poems, and the apple histories in these colorful pages.

We will launch this book at Dog Ears Books in Northport on Saturday evening, September 3, with a signing beginning at 7 p.m. The public is cordially invited.

Antique Apples from Kilcherman’s Christmas Cove Farm

by Phyllis and John P. Kilcherman

Photography by Dianne Carroll Burdick

Traverse City, MI: Arbutus Press

144pp/color

$25.00

Books for Fruit Country People

Another very bookish day in Northport wound up with a delightful visit from author Barbara Bull, who hails from down near Shelby, Michigan. Barbara is a fruit farmer, farmstand operator, a writer, and I now have three of her titles in stock, looking forward to a fourth by fall.

Benjamin’s Gift is a children’s story, a Christmas story, and a story tailor-made for those of us on Lake Michigan’s fruit-growing shore. 

Hardcover, oversize

$19.95

Cloud Cottage is a gentle, “cozy” mystery involving the Civil War, a shipwreck, hidden treasure, and the continuity of families who return year after year to Lake Michigan summer cottages. A sequel will be out later this year.

Paper, 284pp

$15.95

A Point of View: Blackberry Ridge, 1871-1884 tells of pioneer life and fruit farming in the 1880s in West Michigan. This book is an edited collection of actual newspaper articles of the time period, some of the pieces written by a journalist and fruit grower who lived on the same intersection where Barbara Bull now has her farm market.

Paper, 297pp, illustrated

$19.95