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Local Vendor Spotlight: Fruitwood Orchards
With agriculture dominated by mega-producers, it’s reassuring to find a favorite product packaged and distributed by a local family business. One example: Fruitwood Orchards in South Jersey, which...
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Local Vendor Spotlight: Valley Milkhouse Creamery
We are lucky to be alive for the local cheese movement! In the not-so-distant past, most U.S.-made cheese came from factories in the Midwest. Now Southeastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding area has...
View ArticleLocal Vendor Spotlight: Backyard Beans
Backyard Beans Coffee Company started with husband-and-wife team Laura and Matt Adams roasting small batches of coffee beans in their backyard. Today, Backyard Beans is a flourishing business with a...
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Local Vendor Profile: Crust Vegan Bakery
If ever there was a match made in baking heaven, then Meagan Benz and Shannon Roche are it. These entrepreneurial women, who opened their wholesale Crust Vegan Bakery three years ago, share parallel...
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Local Vendor Profile: Fresh Tofu
In its heyday, Allentown, PA, was the home of Mack Trucks’ main assembly plant, a sprawling industrial complex in the south side of the city that straddled 10th Street from Harrison all the way down to...
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Local(ly Connected) Vendor Profile: Bee Boys
Don’t pity the poor Bee Boys. Main Line natives Ryan Williamson and Kevin O’Connor were more or less forced to return to their property on the Big Island of Hawaii two years ago to continue their hive...
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Local Vendor Profile: Christina Maser Co.
Gretchen Christina Maser lives by a guiding principle: “I won’t make anything — I won’t create a product or use an ingredient — if I am not 150 percent comfortable with it.”The founder of the Christina...
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Local Vendor Profile: Good Host Plants
When John Janick and his family moved into their first home with a real yard on Sedgwick Street in 2008, he sought information on how to make it bird friendly. The expert advice he received as part of...
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Local Vendor Profile: Mycopolitan Mushrooms
Hidden from the human eye, vast underground networks of interconnecting organisms thrive. These cities of mushrooms — “mycopolitans” — are held together by mycelia, the threads that link fungi...
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Local Vendor Profile: Merrymead Farm
A certain kind of charm and sweet, simple nostalgia resides at Merrymead Farm— the kind that is generated by friendly employees who earnestly believe in the work they do and in the support for their...
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