The Food Landscape
‘When children learn to count they naturally add and multiply. Subtraction and division are harder to teach them, perhaps because reducing the world is an adult skill.’ Jeanette Winterson We cannot...
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New Subsidy Models Necessary for Growth of Local Economies
We had the opportunity to attend the BALLE Conference in Oakland, CA last week. After years of attending food conferences and not finding anything really useful as a retailer trying to strengthen...
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Freedom Matters
Freedom is a recurring theme in this city. It rings from monuments and street names and encourages travel from near and far. It was heard in the rallying cries of Confederate soldiers and in the...
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What Do We Do All Day?
I wish we had the luxury of just running a store. Being able to focus on our business that exists inside four walls on a street near downtown Atlanta would be a huge boon for productivity. Sadly, as a...
View ArticleOn Food and Freedom
“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.” -Standing Bear “Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.” -Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King “When we heal the earth, we heal...
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What Can You Do To Help?
Imagine if someone told you to make an iPhone out of a rotary dial phone. Or better yet, imagine if someone expected you to make a Kindle out of a typewriter. Sounds insane, doesn’t it? And yet, every...
View ArticleA Word or Two About Money
“The quality of freedom is remarkable; if freedom exists at all, nothing can limit it.” M. We don’t speak enough about money. People fear it and think it is something strange that they will never have...
View ArticleWhat It Takes To Fly
Last Monday, we hosted a party at the store. A lot of people saw it as a closing party, we saw it as a coming of age party. Either way, we continue to reiterate that the store had to close so we could...
View ArticleNew Urbanism + Food
Over the last ten years, the American population has been fed a version of new urbanism that re-imagines suburban sprawl replaced by mixed-use communities offering access to services, food, and...
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What’s Up With Boxcar
We keep getting asked, what is going on with Boxcar Grocer? And the honest, straight-up answer is, it’s on pause. The store in Castleberry Hill was closed for a number of reasons that include rising...
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