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♦ By Stephanie Bateman Sweet ♦ It’s always a joy to come across a neighbourhood grocery store selling seasonal, local, and artisan specialities, and owned by shopkeepers with a passion for the provenance of their produce. General Store in Peckham, South London, ticks all those boxes and some. The delightful owners, Merlin and Genevieve, seemed to have fallen into the role of ‘shopkeepers’ without it being part of their initial grand plan. “We were looking to move into this area and wanted a…

Paint Bank General Store in Virginia offers a nostalgic shopping experience with a unique inventory and an adjacent

With a desire to work for herself and a vision of what her small town needed, Stephanie took the plunge and opened her own store.

Jacqueline Hannah—assistant director at the Food Co-op Initiative—shares how you can start a neighborhood grocery co-op in your town, including how to pitch the vision to community members and elected officials, how to translate your enthusiasm into action, and how the Food Co-op initiative can help

The town of Woodstock is located in what is known as the “quiet corner” of northeastern Connecticut. The tight-knit rural community values its farms, proudly claiming the most dairy farms of any town in the state. Click here to read more.

Boyce General Store in Alvaton, Kentucky

One of the many things I love about where we live in New Hampshire is the fact that we are only an hour and a half from Maine, and an hour and a half from Vermont! Yesterday we drove to Vermont to do a little antiquing in the small town of Chester. We like to take the back roads as much as possible to see more of the countryside of our newly adopted region, and on the way home we drove through the charming town of Grafton, Vermont. We've driven through Grafton many times- it has a lovely…

Independent grocery and provisions store established in 20012.

Four Maine general stores — all with dine-in seating — that are raising the bar for road food.