Posted January 27th, 2011 in Milagros News | Tags: buy local, Community gardens, entrepreneurs, Farming, Going Green, homesteading, kitchen literacy, LaunchPad, local economy, New Economy, portland, radical homemaking, Small business in Portland, urban farming |
Outsourcing, how do we bring it all home? How about starting at home.
Those skills your grandparents rocked, why not reconnect with the household arts of old? Make yourself kitchen literate and you move food production to the most local place possible – your home. Beyond the pride of creating, you can save big bucks! (Up to 50 percent off your grocery bill!)
Chris Musser of Lost Arts Kitchen is the guest on LaunchPad Radio today at 4pm on Pagatim.fm.
She’ll talk about what’s been “lost” in our households, how she found it and how you can too.
Listen to Pagatim.fm Live
Posted July 16th, 2009 in public policy | Tags: CPSIA, local economy |
We have connected with many local businesses who are concerned that the CPSIA will inadvertantly push responsible and ethical companies out of business. This group of small, local businesses is known as the Northwest Children’s Bussiness Alliance.
Every member of the NWCBA supports enhanced safety of products designed for children. However the testing and labeling requirements to comply with these regulations will create a huge burden on many small businesses and don’t always make logical sense. Our focus is working with congress and federal regulators to implement some common sense inmprovements to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) that will not diminish safety and allow ethical crafters, small and micro-businesses stay in the marketplace.
If you own a business that may be effected by the CPSIA, are interested in assisting local businesses affected by the CPSIA or just want to learn more about this issue, please join us for the next meeting of the NWCBA at Milagros on Friday, July 17 at 9 Am.
Peace,
The Fuentes Family
Milagros Boutique
