by Jen Risley | Indie Local Businesses, News, Shop Black-Owned
From Sustainable Business Network (MA): Artifact Soapworks is a trendsetting online soap shop offering first-rate products and exceptional customer service to shoppers from the comfort of their own homes and other locations. Established by Barbara Thomas, Artifact...
by Jen Risley | Indie Local Businesses, News
People First Economy 2023 Good for Michigan Awardee From Rapid Growth Media (MI): Arick Davis and Sarah Laman are runners. They say that the most challenging portion of a run is the last mile. When comparing the state of the world to a long-distance run, they decided...
by Jen Risley | Indie Local Businesses, News
From Measure Meant (WA): The Grain Shed is a vertical co-op located in Spokane, Washington. It was founded by four people: a grain grower, a brewer, a maltster, and a baker. All the grain grown to produce the bread and the beer is grown within 100 miles of 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...
