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Baking Bread (as a business opportunity)

Zachary Crockett at The Hustle has been looking at the bread baking phenomenon. We asked readers of The Hustle to weigh in … More

artisanal economies, baking, baking break, Etsy, The Hustle, Zachary Crockett

COVID helps encourage artisanal retail

“When the pandemic closed down his office in downtown Portland, Oregon, urban planner Neil Heller started wondering about the bodega … More

artisanal, artisanal economies

Project entry # 14: Lacey, Media Wonder Dog, and the Hustle of an Artisanal Portfolio Business

During our travels through western Kentucky back in March, we were on a drive down a two-lane highway, when we … More

artisanal economies, Kentucky, Lacy, mawmaw's, portfolio enterprise, Sam Ford

Get Started

Start your own garden
Build a beehive
(Or buy one)
Make pies in your kitchen
(And maybe make a pie bar)
Make a top seller on Etsy
Make your own soft drink (aka “shrub”)
Make a line of soap
Make a nut bar for your farmer’s market
Buy a food truck
Make mead
Start a workshop in your home
Profits in pets?
Start a composting business
Start a Kombucha business
Start an herbal CSA
Start a flowers CSA
Move to Pittsburgh (artisanal hotspot)
Sign up at Edible Communities (and here)
Small Business Loans
Chickens for the backyard

Success stories

Speakeasy Travel Supply
Olives and Grace
King of Pops
Canadian Craft Products
Savannah Bee Company
Barney’s Beer
The Grey Barn and Farm
JD Country Milk
Home Cafe and Market Place
Mammaws Kitchen
Firefly Handmade Boulder
Truman Boot Company
Chez Panisse
Full Moon: Kitchen-crafted natural dog treats
The Hudson Standard
Nutshell
This is story
Benjamin Bott Leather Goods
Parlor custom skis
The Beehive Atlanta
Artisan Center Denver
The Beautiful Briny Sea
The Austin Artisan
Malibu Farm Cafe
Aida Eats
Stitch and Rivet
Gordy’s Pickle Jar
Artisanal hive
The Source Lifestyle Hotel & Market Hall
Wigle Whiskey
Dog & cat suppliers at Mungo & Maud
88 acres
The Grist
Modern Farmer
The Flow Hive ($14 m on IndieGoGo!)
Start Garden
Mater Soap
Grow Compost
Bluegrass Soy Sauce

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timely essays, blogs and books

■ Mandray, Nora. 2017. “Farming in the Middle of the Motor City – a Patch of Green in the Rust Belt” | Aeon. here.

■ Fisman, Ray, and Helaine Olen. 2012. “The New Artisan Economy.” Slate, July 16. here.

■ Kamp, David. 2006. The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. Broadway. here.

■ Crawford, Matthew B. 2009. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. Penguin Books. here.

■ Vaughan, Melissa Schreiber, Susanne König, and Heather Weston. 2015. Made in Brooklyn: An Essential Guide to the Borough’s Artisanal Food & Drink Makers. Brooklyn: PowerHouse Books. here.

■ Eisenpress, Cara. n.d. “Brooklyn’s Fancy Artisanal-Food Businesses Are Getting Chewed Up.” Crain’s New York Business. here.

■ Warner, Nick, ed. 2014. Made by Hand. Black Dog Publishing. here.

■ McNamee, Thomas. 2008. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse. Penguin. here.

■ Chafkin, Max, and Jing Cao. 2017. “The Barbarians Are at Etsy’s Hand-Hewn, Responsibly Sourced Gates.” Bloomberg.com, May 18. here.

■ School of the New American Farmstead. Sterling College. here.

■ Ocejo, Richard E. 2017. Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy. Princeton University Press. here.

■ Abrams, Rachel, and Robert Gebeloff. 2017. “In Towns Already Hit by Steel Mill Closings, a New Casualty: Retail Jobs” – The New York Times. here. Accessed June 27.

■ IZA World of Labor. 2017. “Nearly 80% of Prisoners Are Interested in Starting Their Own Business.” ART + Marketing. June 28. here.

■ Kennedy, Alicia. 2016. “An Update From the Road After the SCRATCHbread Closing.” Edible Brooklyn. May 27, 2016. here.

■ Jackson, Lauren Michele. 2017. “The White Lies of Artisanal Food Culture.” Eater. August 17, 2017. here.

■ Crawford, Amy. 2018. “Big Data Suggests Big Potential for Urban Farming.” WIRED. February 20, 2018. here.

■ Schweitzer, Ally. 2018. “Small Shops Weather The ‘Retail Apocalypse.’ here.

■ Dettman-Bielefeldt, Tina. 2017. “Artisan: ‘Creatives’ Must Commit to Marketing.” Press Gazette Media. here.

■ Wang, Amy X. 2018. “The Number of Americans Working for Themselves Could Triple by 2020.” Quartz at Work. 2018. here.

■ Avent, Ryan. 2018. “Crafting a Life.” 1843. February 8, 2018. here.

■ Petrini, Carlo, and Alice Waters. 2007. Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should Be Good, Clean, And Fair. Translated by Clara Furlan and Jonathan Hunt. New York: Rizzoli Ex Libris.

■ Crawford, Matthew B. 2016. The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

■ Peters, Adele. 2018. “This Easy-To-Use Beehive Is Bringing Honey To Backyards.” Fast Company. March 9, 2018. here.

■ McColl, Sarah. 2018. “Meet the Soil Sisters: Making It as Female Farmers in a Man’s World.” Modern Farmer (blog). March 8, 2018. here.

■ Bliss, Sam. 2015. “Artisans Transform One Small Town’s Economy.” Grist (blog). July 9, 2015. here.

■ Miller, Phil. 2018. “Former Rave Club Reborn as the Latest City Centre Foodie Haven.” HeraldScotland. here.

■ Hotels, Tablet. 2018. “Agricultural Revolution — Farm to Table Hotels.” The Agenda from Tablet Hotels (blog). March 23, 2018. here

Thank you

Mark Boles
Drew Smith
Tom LaForge
Andy Morris
Regina Northouse
Rabbi Irwin Kula
Pip Coburn

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