Tag: small business
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Independent Bookstores (30 Days of Gratitude: Day 19)
New books draw you in with their interesting unmarked covers, with crisp pages to turn – friends just waiting to be discovered. Used books are like old friends, a little worn around the edges, but full of history and inspiration. Technology creates a variety of different digital options for reading books on a screened device.…
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Supporting the Little Guys
As the crab apple trees and lilacs both came into their full glory, filling the yard with the fragrance of a delayed Spring, I took an additional day of vacation to extend a long weekend, and frantically scrambled to eliminate as much dog and cat hair as possible, while putting together an extra-special spread for…
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Gardener’s Mecca in Minnesota: An Illustration of the “Why”
Along a lonely stretch of highway, near the small town of Zim, Minnesota, one can find a little piece of heaven for gardeners. Byrns Greenhouse is unassuming from the road, but as you pull in the driveway (or park along the shoulder of the highway on the typically busy weekends) and make your way toward…
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Have You Been Getting Locally Laid?
LoLa is the little chicken that could. With only three more daily opportunities to vote for this small business and help LoLa win a Super Bowl ad, I have become even more enamored with this cheeky local farm, Locally Laid Egg Company (where “local chicks are better”). LoLa’s daily Facebook updates, her sassy photo ops, the company’s…
Travel. Garden. Eat. 