03/24/2025
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this important tribute 🫡 to
Opening and operating one of the few microbusiness in Michigan is a rollercoaster of uncertainty, learning, and long hours. No one has been a steadier partner on this ride, more important to Winewood, and more comfortable rolling with the punches, than Marcus.
Marcus and I met in Minnesota in 2004 when he participated in a 🇩🇪 🤝 🇺🇸 high-school exchange program. We kept up on Facebook through the years, sharing life updates and tips about growing. In 2019, he and his wife .hbr1 road-tripped across America. That’s when we reconnected to discuss the vague idea of opening the microbusiness. Four months later, Marcus and Sabrina left their lives and professions in Switzerland behind to move to Ann Arbor to help build Winewood… ziegel für ziegel 🧱.
It takes a special kind of person to welcome risk and adapt to all types of novel challenges (from dispensary construction, harvesting, metrc-ing, trimming, hash-making, the list goes on…) without twitching an eye. A German person, maybe… And when you pair those skills and flexibility with his love for banter and cannabis, you can see how difficult it will be to fill his shoes!
Please wish Marcus and his family well as he rises to new challenges! Don’t worry – he won’t be a stranger here!
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