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How to Save Your Consulting Business by Shifting Online

Leverage technology and processes to maintain your consulting business online.

Spray Tanning Tips for A Great Spray Tan

Follow these important spray tanning tips so that you’re not looking orange, patchy or flaky. You'll end up with an amazing spray tan without putting your skin at risk from the sun.

Wraps Checklist Covers Your Bases

Every wrap shop does things differently, but there are two things they all want to end up with: a happy customer, and a healthy bottom line. To ensure that you cover all your bases when executing every wrap job, it’s an excellent idea to create a wrap checklist. A good wrap checklist should include the following items to be checked off as each job moves through the shop.

17 Things Your Hairstylist Wants You to Stop Doing

Natural Grocers seems to have caught up to growth curve as same store sales rise

Natural Grocers posted a strong earnings report in its most recent quarter. The company seems to be forging a more balanced growth strategy, one that is not so dependent on the breakneck pace of new store openings as was the case in the past.

Go Further with Food: The Benefits of Buying Local

Shopping locally can be a great way to add healthful foods to your diet while conserving natural resources. That's why during National Nutrition Month, we are encouraging everyone to buy local foods that are healthful for​ the environment and your bodies.

8 Tips for Farmers Market Newbies

8 helpful tips for when you visit the local farmers markets in the Roanoke Valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge

Food as Medicine: Why Doctors are Prescribing a Trip to the Farmers Market

Only one in 10 American adults meet federal fruit and vegetable consumption recommendations. Our lack of produce isn't ideal, which is why some doctors are prescribing visits to the local farmers market.

How to Not Drive Your Farmer Crazy at the Farmers’ Market

Frequenting the farmer's market is a necessity for local foodies. Here's how to keep the farmers and vendors you love on your good side.

What's fueling the boom in food technology?

Israel has become a leading force in food technology, with pioneering start-ups finding ways to create a sustainable food future.

Why consumers think pretty food is healthier

People tend to think that pretty-looking food is healthier (e.g., more nutrients, less fat) and more natural (e.g., purer, less processed) than ugly-looking versions of the same food.

Eat Healthier, Shop in a Convenience Store

For years, the convenience store industry has fought against the notion that its food is...

Food markets fill the gaps for many residents

Eastside Community Ministry offers a free fresh produce market every month for households in need of food.

How one company eliminated food waste

Those carrot tops you’ve lopped off are not garbage. Your snapped-off green-bean stems are not scraps. They are what Thomas McQuillan, sustainability director for Baldor, a specialty foods and produce distributor, calls sparcs - “scraps” spelled backward and pronounced like “sparks.” And sparcs, despite popular assumption, are often just as edible as the rest of the fruit or vegetable.

Shift happens: Finding local food self reliance

Can Cleveland achieve self-sufficiency for a significant part of its population? If the city was systematically converting its supply of vacant land-and training people to grow and process their own food-some 22% of Clevelanders would be more self reliant, OSU researcher Parwinder Grewal, who studied Cleveland's vacant land supply with...