Shady Lane Back on the Market; Loamstead Project Looks for New Home
By Craig Manning | Sept. 7, 2026
Shady Lane Cellars is back on the market, 15 months after it was announced as the site for an ambitious rural development and regenerative agriculture concept. That effort, dubbed the Loamstead Project, is still proceeding, but will take a different form and won’t happen at Shady Lane, the Leelanau Ticker has learned.
The Ticker broke the news last July that Amanda Danielson, founder, co-owner, and sommelier at Traverse City’s Trattoria Stella restaurant, had assembled a team to buy Shady Lane and turn the Suttons Bay winery into “a transformational rural development initiative rooted in regenerative agriculture, sustainable wine production, and community education.”
Dubbed the Loamstead Project, that plan was described …
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