Meet The Makers

  • Reporting for Cookie Duty: Matt Rosen of Sergeant Shortbread’s New Call to Service

    Retirement from military service led Matt Rosen to an unexpected kitchen adventure. Since “trading in my combat boots for cookbooks, I now stand ready to report for cookie duty!” 

  • Happy Food MN: Anna Klimmek’s Food Empowerment Programs

    Happy Food MN and Anna’s new venture of Breakthrough Adventures teach you to eat well with the confidence to cook at home with what you find locally. Anna’s courses contain recipes easily sourced from your neighborhood grocery store. Anna wants you to feel at home in your own kitchen.

  • A New Way to Grocery Shop: Be the Good at the Good Grocer

    The team at Good Grocer wants to know: Can a grocery store can change the world? Kurt Vickman, the founder of Good Grocer, shared why he sees providing accessible food as the driving force for the store.

  • Legacy Building: Lara Cornell’s Artistic Business Vision

    From her own botanical paintings to the coaching she provides artists and artisans, Lara Cornell challenges her community to consider the long-term impact of their work. Impact includes eco-impact, social justice, equality, biodiversity, and economic questions. Lara disrupts the myth of the starving artist in order to empower creatives to found sustainable, economically-sound businesses that make the world a little more fair.