- Date
- 2026-08-02
- Eras
- Irish eraModern era
- Concepts
- agricultureeconomyenvironmenthistoriography
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
This dossier organizes nine source families for Beaver Island farming and food systems. It connects dated agricultural-extension reports, local farm and orchard memory, state and ecological landscape records, and current food-resilience statements without collapsing them into a continuous farm census or title history.
Evidence limits
The dossier supports a research trail for soil work, dairy improvement, cooperative farming memory, changed fields and orchards, and current producer goals. It does not establish a parcel chain, farm-by-farm acreage, ownership, archaeological location, production total, or island-wide food self-sufficiency. Catalogued current listings remain statements as of their listing date, not verified historical evidence or completed future activity.
See also
- Island farming and food systems
- Lake Michigan Farms
- Beaver Island Soil Survey and Planned Alfalfa Fertilizer Experiments in 1932
- Beaver Island Bull Clubs and Dairy Improvement Visit in 1937
- Beaver Island Net, “Burke’s Farm”
- Beaver Island Net, “Pfeiffer’s Orchard”
- MDNR management plan for state-owned Northern Lake Michigan islands, 2017
- MNFI Natural Features of Beaver Island landowner’s guide, 2024
Sources
- Island farming and food systems source manifest, project-authored research dataset, August 2, 2026.Inventories nine held, collected, or catalogued source families spanning agricultural reports, local memory, state land management, ecology, and current producer statements. Availability is explicitly not proof of every ownership, archaeological, or ecological claim. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.research · island_farming · manifest
- Island farming and food systems evidence matrix, project-authored research dataset, August 2, 2026.Separates source-supported farming, livestock, orchard, and landscape observations from unsupported title chains, acreage, yields, herd counts, field boundaries, and causal explanations. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.research · island_farming · evidence_matrix
- Island farming and food systems timeline, project-authored research dataset, August 2, 2026.Provides ten dated context and attestation entries from retrospectively identified Strang-period fields through 2026 food-resilience statements; it retains the source level for each entry. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.research · island_farming · timeline
- Project provenance for the island farming and food systems research collection, August 2, 2026.Records the collection as project-authored synthesis; underlying reports, local-history pages, newspapers, and producer materials retain their own rights and limitations. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.research · island_farming · README.provenance
Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes
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Beaver Island Archive, “Island farming and food systems research dossier, 2026”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/island-farming-and-food-systems-research-dossier-2026/, accessed [date], citing Island farming and food systems source manifest, project-authored research dataset, August 2, 2026. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).
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