• Snacking with a Purpose: Isadore Nut Company’s Path to Sustainability

    Isadore Nut Co is named after Tasya’s grandfather, who was an early advocate for organic foods all the way back in the 1950s and believed that “food is medicine.” Tasya has remained loyal to her grandfather’s wisdom, ensuring that all of Isadore Nut Co's snack mixes are vegan, gluten-free and sourced sustainably.

  • Serving Rural Entrepreneurs: CEDA and RBIL Empower Rural Economic Development

    CEDA and RBIL may be two of Minnesota’s best kept secrets.  Let’s change that. 

  • Explore Minnesota’s Traditions Through Play with Nashke Native Games

    Nashke Native Games has developed reimagined traditional games and new games based on Ojibwe cultural traditions. Nashke invented Mii Gwech, a fast-paced card game that introduces players to the fur trade era.

  • Forever Green Initiative at the U of M: Rethinking Minnesota’s Amber Waves of Grain

    An especially unique attribute of the Forever Green Initiative is its focus on commercialization, adoption and scaling. “Broadly speaking, we think of three areas of work: strategy, landscape, and market,” explained Colin. “We need many businesses sourcing these crops, making products and moving them to consumers, either as ingredients or as finished products.”

  • Beth Dooley: Cooking Perennially to Bring Sustainable Change

    “I’m not that great a cook. I’m a really good shopper,” laughs Beth Dooley, James Beard award-winning food writer, author of more than a dozen cookbooks, Star Tribune columnist, and a regular contributor to MPR.

  • Making Small Businesses Shine: The Magic Touch of Inbound Studio

    Founder and CEO Marshall Mullet and Marketing Specialist Olivia Wolbert are the driving force behind this small business whose mission is to make other businesses shine. Their signature services are web design, web development, CRM optimization, Zoho for small business, digital marketing and video production.