Field Notes

Wide black-and-white point-and-shoot photograph inside a craft brewery taproom in 2014: a tattooed bartender pours a pint at a wooden bar while a woman on a barstool holds her glass and two customers talk at a high-top table in the middle ground; a blurred figure moves near two large fermentation tanks in the background, which glow with a translucent hot-magenta wash.
Case study Local business

HOW LOCAL BUSINESSES MAKE YOUR TOWN MORE VALUABLE

June 25, 2026

Black-and-white point-and-shoot photo of a young woman behind the counter of an independent record store in 2004, pressing a price sticker onto a used CD sleeve, with a coiled receipt-printer paper roll tinted in acid green on the counter in front of her.
Local business Money

The Money Case for Going Local

June 24, 2026

Black-and-white point-and-shoot photograph of a bearded baker in a canvas apron over a hoodie kneading sourdough on a flour-dusted bench in a small bakery, 2007, with a cooling rack of four round loaves glowing in translucent hot magenta behind him.
Case study Local business

LOCAL BUSINESS, BUILT TO LAST

June 24, 2026

Black-and-white point-and-shoot photo of a young woman mid-arrangement at a florist's worktable, surrounded by cut stems, a kraft paper roll, a card reader on a tablet, and glass vases on shelving behind her — a loose bunch of tulips on the table washed in translucent hot magenta.
Local business Small business

What is a local business?

June 24, 2026

Wide black-and-white interior of a small 1993 hardware store: four people at different depths go about their work among shelves of paint cans and fasteners, a manual credit-card imprinter on the counter, a hot-magenta-tinted pegboard of bolt bags on the left wall.
Local business Why local

The Local Foundation

June 24, 2026

Wide black-and-white point-and-shoot photo inside a busy independent coffee roastery and café in 2013: a barista pulls espresso behind a long counter while customers wait, chat, and scroll phones; a row of small burlap coffee-sample bags on the lower shelf glows with a translucent acid-green wash, the only color in the frame.
Local business Why local

The Future is Local

June 23, 2026