Jessica's Blog — Female Entrepreneur
When Reality Bites, we bite back!
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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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- Tags: Conscious Consumers, Conscious Entrepreneurs, Equal Rights, Ethical consumerism, Ethical Entrepreneurs, Ethical Values, Female Entrepreneur, Food Gifts, Food production, Giving Back, Healthy Eating, Healthy Snacks, Healthy treats, Human Connections
Behind the scenes at the granola factory or why I finally raised my prices after 11 years
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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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- Tags: buy local, BuyBC, Community, Conscious Consumers, Female Entrepreneur, Food production, Food security, independent businesses, Local Food, Small Business, Small scale food processors, Supply chain issues
Reciprocity
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“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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- Tags: Connections, Conscious Entrepreneurs, Ethical Entrepreneurs, famers markets, Farmers' Markets, Female Entrepreneur, Food Banks, Granola, independent businesses, Indigenous Rights, Local Business, shop local, Small Business, Social Justice, Successful Business
On Being a Female Entrepreneur in the Age of #MeToo
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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.