Patience, Craft, and a Cheese Called Orchard Blue
what really matters What a hands-on, heart-first endeavor can do for a young person, a family, a small town, cannot be overstated. I believe business should be more than a…
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Isaac French
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Small Towns, Big Dreams
more than a business or a building Today, The Pie Safe is known far and wide. A couple of my siblings own and operate it, along with plenty of friends…
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Right Place, Right Time
right place, right time A few days ago, while waiting in line for my burger, onion rings and huckleberry shake in the charming lake town of McCall, Idaho, I met…
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The Best Hospitality Secret in America
But by the late 90s, the once-respectable farm was weeks from being turned into a suburban cookie-cutter subdivision. Enter Penny and Armin Rembe. New Mexico transplants since the ‘60s, they’d…
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A Slice of Our Life and Farm
We have other semi-frequent visitors to our yard from the farm fields surrounding, which gratefully help to keep our lives from growing dull. On a number of occasions, I have…
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Tribute to My Dad
starting over In 2009, in the thick of the financial crisis, my dad felt called to help plant a church community in a rural town in Idaho. He gave the…
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Water Makes Dirt Valuable
By month five, Live Oak Lake was a rocket ship. Every metric cooking. Nonstop occupancy, weekly rate increases, Instagram domination. And the lake was the centerpiece. It showed up in…
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This $1,000 House Will Be a Big Destination
He offered to take it off the owner’s hands, and $1,000 later, it was his. Now, he plans to move the century-old house to the back of his property and…
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Why I Pay Double at This Barbershop
There’s grace here. You feel it the moment you walk in. I pay twice what I’d pay elsewhere and consider it a bargain. The haircut itself is excellent, but the…
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The Land Spoke. I Listened.
I was dead set on building a modern cabin village in nature. There was just one problem — I had no land. So each day for months, I scoured Zillow.…
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