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90 backers pledged to help us raise over $6000 to grow Yummy Yammy. Thank you! 
Job Opening: Run a Vermont Local Foods Store
There are some folks opening a specialty food store next to the Harpoon Brewery in Windsor, Vermont. It will be all about local agriculture. Are you someone resourceful and passionate about local food and agriculture? Know how to run a retail store, have experience growing a business? This particular kind of store will include lots of interacting with farmers, special programming (classes in beekeeping, cheese making, etc.) and other online social media activities. If you want to apply, or know …
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Veggies Worth Eating
Tomorrow we launch something new: a series of live interviews with Vermont superfood producers (like me) and a diabetic expert. You can join in, listen to why these food producers make what they make (hint: there’s nearly always a health connection), and hear from our nutritional expert why it matters. Access to these folks is free, fun, and easy. The calls are live, so you can ask your Q’s and get A’s. Please join us. Noon each day this coming …
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How to Make Farmers’ Markets Work for You (Part 3 of 3)
The two farmers’ markets I work are some of the most profitable time I spend in my business. Two weeks ago I shared tips #1-5, and last week was tips #5-9. Here are my final tips #10-14 for success: 10. Be ready to do business. If this is your first ever market, your preparing days are over. Have lots of change. Have your receipt book ready. Have two pens. Know if you take cash, checks, credit cards. Know your prices. …
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Back Us for Cool Rewards!
Yummy Yammy is now an official Whole Foods vendor, and the Hingham, Mass store has already received their first order. Yay! This makes 20 stores we are in, of all kinds, mostly coops and other independents. As Yummy Yammy prepares for growth, here’s your chance to be a financial supporter, for as little as five dollars (or a lot more), and get really sweet rewards in return. It’s explained simply on this page describing Yummy Yammy’s Kickstarter launch. Kickstarter is …
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How to Make Farmers’ Markets Work for You (Part 2 of 3)
The two farmers’ markets I work are some of the most profitable time I spend in my business. Last week we covered tips #1-4. Here are my tips #5-9 for success: 5. Something free first. Remember: you’re not trying to get a person who has never heard of you to walk up to your table and buy three cases’ worth. “Hi, nice to meet you, buy my stuff” doesn’t work anywhere, with anyone. You want to offer them a commitment-free, …
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How to Make Farmers’ Markets Work for You (Part 1 of 3)
The two farmers’ markets I work are some of the most profitable time I spend in my business. Here are my tips #1-4 for success: 1. Choose the market that’s the best match for your target customer. Ask the market manager about demographics, sales levels, how well your type of product (agriculture, prepared foods, crafts) moves at their market. Don’t hesitate to ask for sales numbers. Visit the market and look at the customers: Are they buying? What are they …
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My Best Advice to Mom-Entrepreneurs
I’m a mom + entrepreneur. My girls are 10 and 7. If you’re running a business and raising children, I can share my best advice built on a few years of experience: * Volunteer in the classroom once a week, doing something you absolutely love to do. For me, it took me 4 years to discover it: I help in the art room. It’s delightful for me, fun for my kids, and I get to know all their classmates quite well. …
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Tagged Bert Jacobs, business, children, entrepreneur, health, healthy, home business, kids, Life is Good, mom entrepreneur, mompreneur, mother, specialty food, sweet potato, Vermont, yummy yammy
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For Better or For Work – Meg Hirshberg
You probably know of Gary Hirshberg, the “CE-Yo” of Stonyfield Yogurt. Do you also know his amazing wife? Meg Cadoux Hirshberg is a columnist for INC. Magazine, as well as the spouse that survived the beginnings and growth of Stonyfield Yogurt. She’s an extraordinary example of the kind of extraordinary person you have to be to thrive as the spouse of an extraordinary entrepreneur. And she has now written a book about how you can do the same: For Better …
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Tagged Concord NH, entrepreneur, family, Red River Theatre, Stonyfield Yogurt, Vermont, work and kids, yummy yammy
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We’re Gonna Make You A Star! (And a winner of Yummy Yammy)
Our Video Contest Could Make You a Winner! Do you love Yummy Yammy? Now’s your chance to prove it, to shout it from the rooftops, to seriously help us out, and maybe to win our contest! All you do is this: Make a short video (under 3 minutes) telling us: WHY you love Yummy Yammy and HOW you use it Make it INSPIRING, FUN, DELIGHTFUL, HEARTFELT, SERIOUS, SILLY, or whatever you want it to be. We can’t wait to see what …
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Sweet Potatoes and Carbs
Do you worry about your carb intake? Do you “count carbs”? I recently came across this simple article about how a sweet potato is the perfect healthy complex carbohydrate to eat, for just about anyone to lose weight. Especially since sweet potato also has so much natural fiber, and phenomenal all-around nutrition. I was surprised at the comments, which seem to suggest that everyone’s scurrying around tracking every carb they eat. I’m curious… is it more important to you to: …
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Tagged carbohydrates, carbs, fiber, health, healthy, healthy dip, nutrition, sweet potato, sweet potato dip
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