I just returned from a week in Switzerland during asparagus and ramp season (the European variety of ramps are known as Bärlauch, or “Bear’s Leek” over there) The respect that they have for eating locally grown food is amazing - something that many of us working in good food businesses in the US aspire to…
Weekly produce subscriptions are now back online, with the first orders going out next week! Please log in to your account (set one up if you haven’t logged in to the new website yet) and configure your preferences here before Thursday morning in order to make sure we can process your order on time. In…
Happy 2017! Hello Members, First, I would like to let you know how much we appreciate your support through the years here at Nextdoorganics, and that we also very much appreciate your patience as you have waited for us over the past 2 months. If you have visited our site lately, you’ve been seeing changes…
To our Nextdoorganics community, Nextdoorganics will undergo a complete retooling of its operations over this Winter including reducing operating complexity/costs, refreshing our member experience, and solving fundamental back end problems with new technology. Over the past 6 months we’ve been a part of the Food Future Co. business accelerator in New York City where we’ve…
Now, I don’t usually read the New Yorker because I fancy myself a bit more Brooklyn than that, but this piece mocking the life of a food co-op member by Joe Wadlington (writing from San Fransisco) made me chuckle into my coffee. Below were my favorite faux orientation bullets. —Green Life is committed to fresh, organic produce…
This week I wanted to share a podcast from WNYC’s Freakonomics Radio that delves into an idea that we’ve discussed numerous times over here at Nextdoorganics: basic minimum income. In short, it is when a government gives a check to all its citizens unconditionally with the intention that people can utilize their funds to stay out…
As you may know, the crowdfunding movement has been in a white hot growth streak recently doubling year over year. In 2016, Forbes reports that it is expected to surpass venture capital funding. Read that again: crowdfunding surpasses venture capital. Check out that Forbes article to get the stark details as well as the venture…
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xWaNp_lbI[/embed] Tama Matsuoka Wong started a company called Meadows & More that delivers wild foraged foods to Nextdoorganics and restaurants in NYC. In 2013, she gave a presentation at TEDxManhattan where she shared how she went from Wall St. lawyer to professional wild forager. On weeds and our past: “We’ve lost the connections with our…
Monday morning I found myself at a panel and round-table discussion on the topic of equity crowd-funding hosted by Food Future Inc. and theInternational Culinary Center in Soho. That’s me in the plaid in the photo. I met Shen Tong, the founder of Food Future Inc. in 2014 when Nextdoorganics participated in the first cohort of the…
