Mark Maynard | local food production

Lets’ have a Totally Awesome Feast next year

By Mark | April 28, 2013

I don’t want to take on one more project, so this idea is free to anyone who wants it… Next year, there should be a Totally Awesome Feast in conjunction with Totally Awesome Fest. We should close a street and do it up right. Maybe cook a tofu pig in a pit, or something. As [...]

Posted in Food, Special Projects, Ypsilanti | Also tagged beard basket, beards, cooking with beards, local food, Mark's big ideas, Patrick Elkins, photos of men with beards, the local food army, thickly-bearded local troubadours, Totally Awesome Feast, Totally Awesome Fest | 10 Comments

Ann Arbor’s vegan food cart The Lunch Room to evolve into a brick-and-mortar Kerrytown restaurant

By Mark | February 5, 2013

Yesterday, the owners of Ann Arbor’s favorite vegan food cart, The Lunch Room, formally announced that they would be following in the footsteps of Eat, and making the transition from seasonal outdoor vendor to year-round brick and mortar. Following is my interview with Phillis Engelbert, who, together with Joel Panozzo, owns The Lunch Room. MARK: [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, entrepreneurism, Food, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized | Also tagged Andy Sell, EAT, food carts, Foraging Florist, fortune telling, fried chicken, Homegrown Smoker, Joel Panozzo, local economy, local food, Mark's Carts, meat, Michigan Peaceworks, omnivore, Phillis Engelbert, Portland, Portobello, seitan, Synecdoche, tarot cards, The Lunch Room, Traverse City, vegan, vegetarian, Washtenaw County Public Health Department, Washtenaw Food Hub | 13 Comments

Grand Rapids shows us how economic development is done right… home-grown food entrepreneurship over dollar stores

By Mark | November 18, 2012

A few months ago, when I was in Grand Rapids, attending the annual BALLE (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies) conference, I had the occasion to hear a speech given by the city’s Mayor, George Heartwell. I can’t find my notes at the moment, but I seem to recall that, buried somewhere in the long [...]

Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Environment, Michigan, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amway, Ave Maria, BALLE, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, David Frey, economic development, false equivalence, farmers market, food entrepreneurship, food hubs, Grand Action, Grand Rapids, hope, infrastructure, local food, national chains, Tom Monaghan, Water Street, Water Street Redevelopment Project | 41 Comments

BALLE founder Judy Wicks on the origins of Urban Outfitters, the birth of the Localist movement, and the necessity of local ownership

By Mark | June 23, 2012

Recently, while in Grand Rapids, I had the occasion to meet Judy Wicks, the founder of the White Dog Cafe in Philadelphia, and the woman who, ten years ago, brought the Business Alliance for Living Local Economies (BALLE) into being. Since the meeting, we’ve been chatting by way of email… Here’s the interview. MARK: Having [...]

Posted in Economics, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Sustainability | Also tagged 1983, American Sustainable Business Council, Amy Goodman, ASBC, BALLE, Ben and Jerry's, Ben Cohen, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, buy local, Chelsea Green, Chiapas, corporations, corporatocracy, democracy, Eskimo, factory farming, Fair Food, fair trade, fast food, Free People’s Store, George McGovern, Going Local, Good Morning Beautiful Business, Guy Bazzanni, Helen Caldicott, Honest Tea, human scale, Jim Hightower, Jim Slama, Joel Soloman, Judy Wicks, Lester Brown, local economy, local food, Localist, Michael Shuman, national chains, Odawalla Juice, ownership, Philadelphia, re-localization, Richard Hayne, sense of place, single-payer system, social change, Social Venture Network, socially responsible business, Starbucks, Stoneyfield Farms, Ted Rouse, The Body Shop, Tom’s of Maine, universal health care, Urban Outfitters, White Dog Cafe, Wicky Wacky Woods, Zapatistas | 10 Comments

Growing Hope responds to CityFARM with the announcement of a similar service

By Mark | February 28, 2012

Amanda Edmonds, the executive director of the local urban farming non-profit Growing Hope just sent in the following letter in response to my recent post about real estate developer Stewart Beal’s newly launched, somewhat competitive, largely for-profit entity, CityFARM. Many, many community members and partners have come to me this past week with concerns about [...]

Posted in entrepreneurism, Food, Local Business, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Amanda Edmonds, CityFARM, Food Gatherers, food security, Ginny Golembewski, Growing Hope, Growing Hope Center, healthy food access, Lauren Maloney, Lisa Bashert, local food, local non-profits, Michigan Works, new models for non-profits, Project Grow, raised bed gardening, social enterprise, Stewart Beal, urban farming, vegetables | 17 Comments

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Lets’ have a Totally Awesome Feast next year

Ann Arbor’s vegan food cart The Lunch Room to evolve into a brick-and-mortar Kerrytown restaurant

Grand Rapids shows us how economic development is done right… home-grown food entrepreneurship over dollar stores

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