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You can. 💫
It is the people in our lives that colour our world and make our hearts feel happy and safe. Not just the ones we live with, but our friends, our clients, our colleagues ... these pandemic days have us missing wrapping our arms around each other, laughing and sharing in person, but we can still continuously show gratitude to and appreciation for those good humans we “share” our days with...and remind each other how fortunate we are to have these connections.
"When we are involved in creativity, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.” -
You can either focus on your challenges and fears or you can focus on what is keeping you together. We always have choices, we simply need to make decisions!
We appreciate Anna Lappe, founder and director of @realfoodmedia, sharing how she finds the courage to speak up and speak out:
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“ I remember getting ready for one of my first public talks and being terrified. I was talking with my friend Anuradha Mittal, who heads the @oaklandinstitute, and confessing my fears. She said, well, do you feel like you have something to say that you want people to hear? ‘Of course,’ was my quick and easy answer. ‘Then, focus on that,’ she said. It doesn’t matter if you’re nervous or scared: It’s not about you, it’s about the message. She was right. And every time I have gotten butterflies since then, I think of her wise words.”
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This is an excerpt from our conversation with Anna, part of our series, #InterviewsWithMosquitos, found on our unblog at bordencom.com. Real Food Media is a women-led organization that uses a wide range of communications tools for food system transformation. If you haven’t watched/listened to Anna’s @ted Talk called “The Empathy of Food”, we highly recommend you carve the minutes out to look it up and pass it on too!
Wishing you a meaningful day. 💚
Another reminder.
We appreciate @patagonia! These "hidden messages" can be found on Patagonia’s new "Road to Regenerative Stand-Up Shorts” (made with Regenerative Organic Certified cotton).
We appreciate Jessie Sosnicki from @sosnickiorganic for so many reasons, including sharing why her local, organic tomatoes cost more than ones from Mexico:
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“As an organic farmer that works bent over in the dirt picking by hand I will not grow or sell cheap food. I once wholesaled bushels of peppers for $4. Never again. Our organic fields yield less tomatoes than large scale grown conventional imports because of bug damage, and diseases such as blight. But most importantly I grow for TASTE, not ‘production’ or ‘shelf life’. Paying $3/lb. for the most succulent tasting Heritage variety, like a big fat sweet rainbow Striped German, will boot the heck out of the .79 cent boring, tasteless, imported, red tomato any day!”
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This is an excerpt from our conversation with Jessie part of our series, #InterviewsWithMosquitos, found on our unblog at bordencom.com. Visit sosnickiorganics.com to find out how you can enjoy her incredible produce in #Toronto! We love making Sosnicki our first stop at @evergreen_brick_works every Saturday and our weekly contactless delivery from their farm to our door you can sign up for fall and winter which includes perogie delivery - the best food is the food grown with love and good energy and best practices - this is it! And although tomato season is just about done, they grow everything with heart and for taste ... so choose well - every dollar you spend on food matters!

Online Tools

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It’s one thing to have an online presence for your good business. It’s another to use the right tools to help save you time and money, and boost your engagement, communications, and all your great efforts. Like all of our lists, this one is ever changing, but these are some of our favourites we use often to help us accomplish all we do.


WordPress There are many different platforms available today to make it easy and affordable for you to get your business online with a website or blog. We’ve tried them ourselves or learned from others’ experiences, and WordPress is still our favourite web software because it’s easy to use and allows us to customize and create anything we want, the way we want it. (Here is our simple solution to get started now).


Green Geeks We host with Green Geeks because they’re reliable, affordable, and their support is incredible (and 24/7). Bonus, all hosting account usage is offset by 300% in renewable energy credits!


QuickBooks We use and recommend this accounting software package for small and medium-sized businesses that offer on-premises accounting applications as well as cloud-based versions. It can accept business payments, manage and pay bills, and payroll functions.


MailChimp We love to use MailChimp because they make it easy to design and share email campaigns, manage your contacts, and track results—even if you’ve never built an email campaign before. If you’re just starting out, you can try the service totally for free, and as a paying customer, you can send more than 12,000 emails a month, access additional features, and remove MailChimp’s badge from your campaign footers.


Buffer makes it easy to maintain regular posting activity on twitter. Keep your Buffer topped up with tweets and they get shared for you throughout the day.


Upwork Find + hire freelancers to help you with anything that can be done on a computer – from web and mobile programming to graphic design. Post your job and budget and have freelancers around the globe apply for the job.


Dragon Anywhere This professional-grade mobile dictation makes it easy to create documents of any length and edit, format and share them directly from your mobile device—whether visiting clients, a job site or your local coffee shop. Continuous dictation and no word limits.


Paypal PayPal is the faster, safer way to send money, make an online payment, receive money or set up a merchant account. It’s reliable and secure so your customers feel comfortable sending you online payments too.


Rackspace
The largest managed cloud provider offering expertise across the world’s leading clouds.


Square From mobile point-of-sale tools and online invoicing, to next-day deposits and inventory management, Square has everything you need to run your business anywhere.


Canva makes design simple for everyone. You can access free templates to create your own designs for web or print, blog graphics, presentations, social media graphics, flyers, posters, invitations and more. Or upgrade your account to Canva for Work to create branded files for your business – it’s a great tool to help keep your branding consistent, and consistency is everything


Buzzsumo is a free online tool that helps you identify the most shared content for any domain or topic.


YouCanBook.me An easy to use, online scheduling tool to take customer bookings. Connects with your calendar and only shares the times you want with your customers. Customers get their own notifications, reminders, calendar invites and more.

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