The collaborative enterprise of the local Tsogyelgar Buddhist community is expanding into a new multifaceted storefront on Zeeb Rd., White Lotus Farms Café.
The farm was established in 2011 west of Ann Arbor, just past the point where Liberty becomes a dirt road, at the home of the spiritual community founded two decades prior. It’s become a popular destination on Saturdays and spring and summer Wednesdays, not only for the farm stand featuring the microgreens, pizzas, baked goods, pasta, cheeses, and botanical skin-care products produced there, but for its bucolic beauty.
“It’s really a place where people come to relax and enjoy just having kind of a peaceful experience away from their busy lives,” says Kat Tsomo, whose mother began taking her there at age three. She’s lived on-site since graduating high school, along with about a dozen others, and now runs the creamery and makes an array of cheeses from goat and cow milk…