My name is mike, im in Product Development at comcast. Were working to make things simple, easy and awesome. Good morning, everybody. Coming up on msmsnbcs your business, these military started a coffee business. Shop local means eat local. A virginiabased group of Grocery Stores, restaurants, and farmers Work Together to grow the local food scene. And the creator of a face mask beauty prbusiness meets up with our shop i finers. Thats all coming up next on
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and as consumers, consumers are wants to know where the food s come from and who s growing itting. for eight years she s is up policed food to grocery stores and res straenltds. tricycle farms is part of an ee coke business helping the consumer all shopping a local growth movement. susan dav enporltd turns to local farmers to provide help. the restaurants are great because they re fwrd trying new things. so far everyone seems to be very happy. we started off with the kitchen as one of our biggest clienls for sure. they ve been wonderful to us. being able to talk to them, it s
connect with food, to learn where it s come from, where it s grown, how it s grown, the difficulties in growing local foods. this is my third one, so i heard about it along the way. it s a great opportunity to go on some farms. so is richmond s mayor. people are coming back and purchasing green space in the middle of the city. they can see something that s growing one minute but it can be on their plate a few days, a few months later. that s the beauty urban agriculture, that it can be done locally and use and consumed right in the city where it s grown. they hope it inspires them to
think of food in a new way and inspire them. sally is dogged about getting people to remanagic food and enrich minute. it s going to be great to have people out to the farm, show people what i m doing, how it s really close to the market here, get people to see what i m doing. real local rva provide ongoing support for people like the lake side. occasionally one of these little venn tors will end up with a shock of their own. we ve seen new growth in the local businesses app that makes us feel good. it s all interconnected, and
see what people have been inspired to create here at black rifle. we re workaholics who are going to keep grinding it out and not slow down. small business saturday is almost here, and the shop local move millionaire this year is stronger than ever. it is even impacting the way we eat. we recently visited richmond, virginia, a place where people are changing how they think about food. it s having an impact on restaurants, breweries, farmers markets, and consumers, . when sally schwitters decided to start bicycle farm, she look right here in the heart of the capital. there s so many than are the populations. it s a more vibrant place to be,