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Here today, gone in weeks — pop-up shops and temporary stores are back for the holiday season.
‘Buy Local’ trend helps some Utahns turn passion for art into a livelihood.
Beginning this fall, every Thursday will be Buy Local Day in the Portland Public Schools’ cafeterias, the school district reported.
Community-supported art programs are popping up all over the country, demonstrating that the concept works just as well for art lovers as for locavores
This Fourth of July, celebrate independent businesses – the backbone of the American economy – by eating local burgers, drinking a local brew, or shopping the sale at a local boutique.
One of the greatest ways to ensure that our buy local movement makes a significant economic contribution is to involve the youngest generation.
The big food makers face a serious challenge for 2013: Consumers will want to eat even “smaller.” Not smaller as in less, but smaller as in locally grown, inspired by street vendors and loaded with fresh, veggie concoctions. So says a 2013 food trends report by the research firm Culinary Visions, scheduled to be released on Tuesday.
Perhaps nothing symbolized the economic downturn like the sight of an empty, closed restaurant. Eateries have been shutting their doors steadily since 2009…until now.
Use locally sourced produce and meats. Its better for the local economy. Its better for the environment. Its better for you. And it just plain tastes better. We have thousands of farmers markets in our database. To find one near you just click here. Hey, and please try and save some of the sweet corn for us.
By Jamaliya Cobine – Huffington Post 6.9.2011 My refrigerator is full of vegetables… If you asked me a couple of years ago if I would pay a sizable lump sum for a weekly random selection of vegetables I would have said no. When you take the granola, go-green, buy-local message out, a C.S.A Share (Community Supported Agriculture Share) is just that. Read more…
