• 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.

  • Homemade Happiness: Heartland Hooga Bakeshop Bakes from the Heart for the Stomach

    Jessica Babiar, the founder of in-home cottage bakeshop Heartland Hooga, has many core memories centered on food. Her love of baked goods started with holidays featuring handmade treats from her family. This highlight helped nurture a love of baked goods and linked them as a love language.

  • Spreading some sunshine: Twofold Blooms brings fresh flowers to those who need them most

    Marie Schuhwerck hated to see the waste generated by the brief life of beautiful floral arrangements. They had so much beauty still to share; there had to be another option rather than moving them to the trash

  • Little meatballs–big impact: Simek’s is changing the world from the grocery store freezer aisle

    Did you know that every time you purchase a Simek’s product Lindsey Hickey and the rest of the St Paul Park based Simek’s team donates a meal to a Feeding America food bank? What about Simek’s partnership with rePurpose Global to remove an equivalent amount of plastic from the environment as is used in the packaging and shipping of their products?

  • Courage & Clay: Much More Than Earrings

    Meet Brittany of Courage & Clay. This St Louis Park woman-owned business creates earrings that are simple and stylish. Brittany has a sharp eye for design and a desire to create pieces that will inspire the people who wear them.

  • Crunchy Soap and Home: Keeping it Weird, Wild & Wonderful

    Meet Emilee of Starseed Urban Homestead. From her Stillwater kitchen Emilee produces small batch soaps, salves, and creams that are good for you and for the planet.