Sleeping Bear Gourmet

Sleeping Bear Gourment is a cooperative of Light of Day Organics Loose Leaf Teas, Food For Thought, Naturally Nutty Nut Butters, HigherGrounds and Stone House Bread. Here is a sampling of what you'll find at the Sleeping Bear Gourment Tent:

Packaged Items Prepared Items
All Michigan grown/and or produced
Wide variety of peanut butter, almond butter, sunflower butter

Preserves---organic—several different flavors

Cherry Salsa-organic

Cherry honey mustard

Cherry concentrate--organic

Star thistle honey-organic

Tea organic and fair trade (hot/iced)---several different blends—green, black, white, herbal

Chai

Coffee organic and fair trade(hot/iced)---several different blends of bagged coffee—whole bean and ground

Loaves of bread—different kinds (sourdough, caibattini, baguettes)

Cookies/pastries

 Chips and Salsa

Baguette chips and wild leek relish

Gourmet PB & J sandwiches

PB & J with banana

Herbed Foccacia with red pepper and artichoke with salsa dip

Cookies and pastries from Stone House

Hot Chai

Iced Hummingbird w/cherry concentrate

Hot Coffee—Cherry Festival blend

Iced Coffee

The companies, collectively marketed as “Sleeping Bear Gourmet” are comprised of: Food For Thought (preserves, salsas, mustards), Higher Grounds Trading (coffee), Light of Day Organics (loose leaf teas), Naturally Nutty Nut Butters, and Stone House Bread.

Some of the value-added prepared cherry goodies include: Local, gourmet “PB & J” (butter toffee peanut butter with cherry cabernet preserves on cherry walnut bread); Food Network featured, organic cherry salsa combined with Michigan-made garlic corn chips; Cinnamon cherry peanut butter with cherry biscotti; and Organic cherry iced tea with dried apples, blueberries, currants, and maple syrup bits.

About Sleeping Bear Gourmet (SBG): SBG consists of Michigan food manufacturers who strive to create food products that are best in their class and gourmet in attribute. SBG aims to use locally-grown, preservative-free ingredients and to produce its goods with local labor.

About Light of Day Organics Loose Leaf Teas:
Founded by a Registered Nurse and a Master Gardner. Light of Day grows and dries the herbs, flowers, and fruits in Leelanau County and blends them with the organic, fair trade, and biodynamic tea leaves imported from around the world.

About Food For Thought: With a vision of treading softly on our human and natural environment, this company crafts organic and wild harvested specialty foods. Their products emphasize premium quality, low sugar, organic wine and herb-infused preserves, and includes salsas, mustards, dried fruits, and other condiments.

About Naturally Nutty Nut Butters: Created by a Traverse City mom on a mission, these nut butters contain hemp and flax seed and come in decadent flavors, like butter toffee, white chocolate coconut, and honey cinnamon.

About Higher Grounds: Winners of Small Business of the Year for Northern Michigan and Michigan's only 100% fair trade and organic coffee roasting company.

About Stone House Bread: From the classic sourdough baguette to the ciabatta loaf, Stone House handcrafts all of its breads, cookies, scones, and pastries with personal attention and delivers to stores throughout Western Michigan.