My Economy

Anne Schwagerl, co-owns and operates Prairie Point Farm in Minnesota, where she’s experimenting with new crops.

Erika Thompson owns Texas Bee Works, a beekeeping and bee removal company. Like other small businesses, inflation is adding new challenges.

After being laid off, marketing professional Collin Cook has been pitching himself as a “Swiss Army knife.” He’s had mixed results.

With flavors like barbecue, cornbread and banana pudding, Phillip Ashley Rix found an unfilled niche in the luxury chocolate world.

Hangers Cleaners, a Missouri pickup and delivery service, is trying to find the right employees and stay competitive with pay.

Bruce Ridenour has been a contractor for 40 years and said local contractors in Danbury, Connecticut don’t have bandwidth to handle all the new demand.

Amber Balakian went “to college thinking, ‘I’m going to do something else and get away from everything.’ I actually ended up coming back.”

The sand Glass Half Full creates from processed bottles is repurposed for flood disaster relief and mitigating coastal erosion, among other things.

Vinyl records are a big part of Phillip Rollins’ business at Offbeat in Jackson, Mississippi. But rising costs make them a harder sell.

“I know that art is something that I’m very interested in, but I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to make money doing it,” says Devin Tormey.