2023 Thanksgiving Holiday Sees Record Sales
Starting with our Thanksgiving meal, we’re purchasing more of our holiday gifts and celebration needs from our friends and neighbors — locally owned business owners.
The Grain Shed: Brewer, Baker, Social-Bond Maker
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...
Digging Deeper: Eat Indie Local 2.0
To build on our Eat Indie Local Month campaign, we’re looking for your feedback on how we can help you start or grow Local Food Promotion Programs in your community (programs like Local Food Festivals, Trade Shows, and Matchmaking Events). Please take our...
Our Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Bacon
Actor Kevin Bacon supported our Shift Your Shopping for Good promotion in 2013. Thanks to the work of our core organizing team, we garnered amazing media attention through this hilarious video starring Melvin Macon.
Parkway Bakery Since 1911
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...
Farming and Fermenting with a Light Touch at Barmann Cellars
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...