indiegainesville

Celebrating Independent Gainesville

Eat Local Challenge!

Happy May Day–and welcome to the SIXTH (–are we counting right, Stefanie?)  Annual Eat Local Challenge. You can register and officially accept the challenge here. Just email (HogtownHomeGrown@gmail.com) your: First Name Last … Continue reading

May 1, 2013 · Leave a Comment

What’s Going On

Oh lovely Gainesville…we have missed writing here. It’s just, you know, life happens and we get distracted and are really busy. Time to get back to basics: Posting! What’s going … Continue reading

March 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment

What’s Going On . . .

New art downtown! This afternoon, at 5:30 pm, there will be a Ribbon Cutting and chance to meet the artists and sponsors, a chance to check out the sculpture if you … Continue reading

January 15, 2013 · 1 Comment

Indie news

Great story about a retiring grocer who declined lucrative buy-out opportunities and sold the business to his employees instead.   The life of today’s chain retail workers. What the Wal-Mart strikers … Continue reading

November 29, 2012 · 1 Comment

Indie businesses–by the numbers (or, why local?!)

Number of new independent bookstores that have opened since 2005:  437 Increase since 2002 in the number of small specialty food stores:  1,414 Increase since 2002 in the number of … Continue reading

September 10, 2012 · Leave a Comment

What to Do? This, this, this, and this.

Happening this weekend (that you don’t want to miss!): Tonight is ArtWalk. We love ArtWalk. “The mission of Artwalk is to promote the arts as an active, vibrant, and essential … Continue reading

August 31, 2012 · Leave a Comment

You asked, we answer

1. “How did you get started?” Indiegainesville was started when we saw the need to share the extraordinary independent businesses and supportive community in this city.  While we didn’t expect … Continue reading

August 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Birthday, anniversary, indie-celebration

A year ago, we finally took action and started this blog. It was born as an idea in early July, but . . . perhaps we were shy. Who knows. … Continue reading

August 9, 2012 · 3 Comments

Our 1 Year Old!

Happy Birthday, Citizens Co-op! We’ll see you at the Summer Survival Fest shortly. Join us in celebrating our one year anniversary and help us reach our next one! We’ll have … Continue reading

July 21, 2012 · 1 Comment

What we’ve been reading

Indiegainesville in the Alligator! Woo-hoo! A sincere thank you to the Alligator–who needs your help (read here). Freedom of the press? Thank you so much to everyone who has supported … Continue reading

July 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment
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