Join us for a tour of Maple Bay Farm, an 11-acre property owned by the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy. The property includes a farm house, root cellar, sugar shack, pole barn and gardens. Volunteers have created a one acre farm to grow produce that is donated to Food Rescue for distribution to various local pantries. They also use the location for educational demonstrations in organic farming practices, composting and much more.

About Your Guide: Marcella Massa

As a longtime resident of Manhattan, Marcella would garden by asking friends with homes if she could plant and prune in their yards. Retiring to Traverse City in 2018, she became an Extension Master Gardener, a volunteer docent at Grand Traverse Conservancy District and "farmer" at Maple Bay Farm.  Locally Marcella has worked to control the spread of invasive species, recently convincing the TC Parks and Recreation to remove a Tree of Heaven grove along the Boardman River and to treat another one by Oryana.