Hey Honey Hive, this has been a week. When you have been active within your community for a long time you make connections that even when you move on sometimes pull you back. Kind of like an old relationship that never ends. Here we go again. But in this instance it was important to go back and give support to a community that is more like family, you have the happy go lucky, the nasty Nellie, the despondent dweller and the hopeful helper and at any given time they can each b

Hey Honey Hive, After over 18 years of growing and developing different business concepts and watching others open and shutter their doors, there are a few common threads that I find in new entrepreneurs that are seeds to success. First to be successful you must be creative, you have to be prepared to think outside the box and sometimes live there. That said and creativity aside, I am still dumbfounded by people with what could be a great idea that will not take the time to

Hey Honey Hive, The transition from a children's toy store to an engaging destination for children of all ages has been a long journey in the sense of business development. I am excited for our section of the Erie Canal Trail that opens us up to more visitors by leading them right to Windsor Village and GrassRoots Mercantile ! In my goal to get back to my roots, I have opened GrassRoots Mercantile to specialize in Mom and Pop products from local farms to your next door neigh

Hey Honey Hive, Western New York has lived for so long outside the gates of the Big Apple, ignored and forgotten unless some politician needs a few votes, that it began to believe that it was unworthy of redemption. Blinded by the temptation of the Apple it slowly became bitter to the natural gifts that surround it. Decades of neglect due to greedy speculation that one day someone will come in and buy all the run down shadows of once thriving businesses for more than they are

Welcome to a small businesswoman's take on Western New York living, the naked truth about the political and economic struggles of reinventing a blue collar region. A region once rich in manufacturing finding itself getting back to its roots and redefining its future. From every City corner Buffalo to Niagara Falls to Lockport to North Tonawanda Western New Yorkers stand on the brink. Getting beyond good old boy politics, old ideas and visions is the challenge in making posit