by Jen Risley | Shop Black-Owned, Shop Indie Local
Here are some ideas and resources to help you promote your Black-owned business during Choose Black-Owned Month: Add an image of you and a bit about you on your homepage. Help your community get to know you! Add our Choose Black-Owned Logo to your website and social...
by Jen Risley | Front Page Highlight, Shop Indie Local, Shop Indie Local Season
Plaid Friday celebrates the diversity and creativity of local and independent businesses. It’s a fun and enjoyable alternative to the big box store “Black Friday” consumer frenzy. Also, it’s a way to show your support for your local economy and commitment to the...
by Jen Risley | Indie Local Businesses, News
From Parkway (LA): Parkway Bakery and Tavern first opened for business in 1911, and it has been a New Orleans icon ever since… Back in those days, every neighborhood in NOLA had a bakery on the corner. Over the next seven years, Timothy Sr. established Parkway’s...
by Jen Risley | Indie Local Businesses, News
By Sustainable Connections: Stephanie Barmann and Jesse Nickerson are the farmers and fermenters behind Barmann Cellars in Everson, WA, a low-intervention winery and cidery utilizing regeneratively farmed estate fruit. Everything they craft, tend, and share is done...
by Jen Risley | Indie Local Businesses, News
By Publishers Weekly: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, a general-interest store that occupies two substantial storefronts across from a historic farmers’ market in Harrisburg, PA, celebrates its 20th anniversary as a bricks-and-mortar location this year. Owners Lawrence and...