Denver Slow Food Festival

Love Local City Guide: Denver

Denver Colorado, quite possibly one of the greenest place in America, and by green we mean sustainable.  Clean water, fresh air, drinks without straws and small businesses abound!  Trashcans are always accompanied by recycling and compost bins.  Pick up any […]

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Plastic Free Summer Entertaining

Summer is here, the kids are out of school and the heat is on which means BBQs and pool parties are in full swing. We’ve all cleaned up and taken the giant bag of trash […]

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The Sustainable Shopper: We Have The Power

“Households have a relatively large degree of control over their consumption, but they often lack accurate and actionable information on how to improve their own environmental performance” (Norwegian University of Science and Technology 2016). Holding corporations […]

Napa Valley Vineyard

Love Local City Guide: Napa Valley

The Napa valley is the embodiment of local. Chefs cultivate food from their own organic gardens and support local growers and producers to create fresh seasonal menus while keeping money in the hands of local, […]

Green Door Gourmet Nashville’s Fanciest Farm

Green Door Gourmet is an oxymoron. It is the trendiest, most contemporary 80-year-old farm I’ve ever seen. Their farm store, housing a collection of organic produce and locally crafted products, has recently been renovated to […]

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BANANAS ARE NOT TRASH.

Your leftover lasagna, the pizza crust your daughter didn’t want to eat, the almond milk you forgot to drink before you left for vacation, the extra rice no one ate when you ordered in….all of […]

Sustainable & Sexy for your Valentine

If you’re looking for the perfect Valentines gift to get you and your honey in the mood, you’re in the right place.  We’ve put together a list of lingerie companies whose founders are trailblazers in […]

Farmers Market Tomatoes with Blog Title, Local Sustainable Bay Area

Love Local City Guide: SF Bay Area

The bay area is known for the tech giants who have made it home.  In the sea of big business and redwoods, there are people who’ve ventured to create noteworthy sustainable small businesses.  Campbell and […]

Jar of Ocean Plastic

Reducing Plastic Usage & Waste

If you follow our Twitter account, @Love__Local, you know that we’ve posted a lot about reducing plastic usage and waste. That’s because it’s such an important issue that affects us all.  Microplastics are the result […]

Photo of Love Local Founder, Jennifer Liepis

The Love Local Founding Story

After years of living in New York City, working in digital advertising and music marketing, I realized I wanted to influence people in a different way. The inspiration for Love Local began with my interest […]