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Author Archives: myrna
Sharing Strategies for Growing Sustainable Businesses
Starting and maintaining a local, independent business that’s economically, socially, and environmentally sustainable is challenging because it goes against the stuff you learn in business school, such as “Grow or die,” “Don’t cooperate with your competitors,” and “Keep your costs … Continue reading
Posted in Boston, Food, Support local economies
Tagged American Sustainable Business Council, BALLE, Beautiful Business, Equal Exchange, Good Morning, Harvest Coop Markets, Judy Wicks, Our Family Farms, Pioneer Valley Milk Marketing Cooperative, Sustainability Leadership Summit, Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts, Valley Green Feast, White Dog Cafe
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Slow Money Boston Grows a Fresh Crop of Entrepreneurs
What do food trucks, a mobile healthy market, a pedal-powered tractor, a zero waste recycling and composting coop, and an oil, feed, and biodiesel company in Vermont have in common? They all presented their business plans at the sixth Slow Money … Continue reading
Posted in Boston, Farmers Markets, Farms, Food, Investing, Support local economies
Tagged Boston Slow Money, Cassandria Carla Campbell, CERO, Culticylce, Fresh Food Generation, Fresh Truck, Full Sun Company, Greater Boston Slow Money, Irene Li, Jackson Renshaw, Julia Shanks, Mei-Mei Street Kitchen, Slow Money, Tim Cook
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Fresh Truck to Bring Healthy Food Options to Boston
In the world I want to live in, we’d all have access to delicious, healthy, “culturally appropriate” food that is as fresh and locally grown or produced as possible. Fresh Truck, a new Boston-based social business, is about to launch … Continue reading
The Comfort of Food Goes Beyond “Comfort Food”
After my father died last week, I found tremendous comfort in eating and sharing the foods that I grew up with and he loved. I realized that when a loved one dies, food is a universal currency that enables the … Continue reading
Posted in Fish, Food, Pescovegetarian
Tagged comfort food, comfort of food, Kaurman's Deli, Skokie
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The aMAZEing Things Farmers Must Do to Survive
Farming is a risky business, so most successful farmers have to do more than grow food in order to survive. At the biannual Harvest New England conference in Sturbridge, Mass. last week, I learned about some of the wonderful and … Continue reading
Posted in Farms, Support local economies, Travel
Tagged 2013 Harvest New England conference, agriculture marketing, agritourism, branding for farmers, Cabot Creamery, farm marketing, Farm to Institution, Farm to School, Farmers, farms, Good Egg Marketing, Harvest New England, Jean Francois Millet, MFA Boston, Mike Wissemann, Roberta MacDonald, social media for farms, The Sower, The Sower's Banquet, Warner Farm, Will Sillin
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Red’s Best Seafood Supports New England Fishing Industry
Until recently, practically the only way to get local seafood in Boston was if you caught it yourself. Thanks to community supported fisheries like Cape Ann Fresh Catch, and now, an innovative company called Red’s Best Seafood, pescovegetarians like me … Continue reading
Plant Fish in Your Garden
As a dedicated pescovegetarian, I manage to find seafood wherever I go—even at a garden show! Bell Aquaculture is an Indiana-based company that farms, fillets, and sells yellow perch. They use the leftovers from processing the fish to produce an … Continue reading
To Start a Farmers Market, It Takes a Village
Last fall, I fulfilled one of my dreams by helping to start the Egleston Farmers Market, an indoor winter farmers market in Jamaica Plain, my neighborhood of Boston (better known by its nickname, JP). In the process, I discovered that … Continue reading
Doris’ Delicious Pescovegetarian Oyster Dressing
Okay, I have to be honest. My mother-in-law, Doris, is not a pescovegetarian. She likes to put sage sausage in her oyster dressing, but when I’m around for dinner, she makes a pan of it without the meat, so that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Fish, Food, Pescatarian, Pescovegetarian, Recipe, Vegetarian
Tagged oyster stuffing, Pescovegetarian, Thanksgiving recipes
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Pioneer Valley Unites Local Food and Anti-Hunger Efforts
The good citizens of western Massachusetts’ “Pioneer Valley” are working together to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, healthy, local food that is sustainably grown. Instead of seeing the local food movement and fighting hunger as two separate causes, … Continue reading
