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When Reality Bites, we bite back!

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When Reality Bites, we bite back!
Food is energy. Food is love. Food helps us through tough situations.  With your help, I hope to share love and nourishment with those who need it the most.

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Behind the scenes at the granola factory or why I finally raised my prices after 11 years

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Behind the scenes at the granola factory or why I finally raised my prices after 11 years

Now, more than ever, it is important to find those small businesses you love and show them all the support you can.

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Reciprocity

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Reciprocity

“You might rightly observe that we no longer live in small, insular societies, where generosity and mutual esteem structure our relations. But we could. It is within our power to create such webs of interdependence, quite outside the market economy. Intentional communities of mutual self-reliance and reciprocity are the wave of the future, and their currency is sharing. The move toward a local food economy is not just about freshness and food miles and carbon footprints and soil organic matter. It is all of those things, but it’s also about the deeply human desire for connection, to be in reciprocity...

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On Being a Female Entrepreneur in the Age of #MeToo

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On Being a Female Entrepreneur in the Age of #MeToo
I am an independent woman engaged in the business world that has traditionally belonged to men. I cannot take my position and freedoms for granted knowing that everywhere, every day, every hour, my sisters are enslaved, imprisoned, endangered, denied basic rights.

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