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· Posted Tuesday February 26, 2008 by jamie

A few random locally-interesting things clinking around today, from email and other dark regions of this series of tubes you’ve found yourself on… None are enough to bother with their own post, so I’m just cramming them all together into one omnibus thingamajigger.

Tonight is the first installment of Go Local or Die, covered extensively elsewhere, but worth checking out if you can make it.

Also related to local buying, I was thinking it would be really sweet if there were a website where I could search for stuff I wanted to buy, and find results from local merchants where I could then go to make my purchase. Turns out that I’m not going to get rich off of that idea, because it already exists in the form of Yokel. Granted, I haven’t found anything from a local independent store on there yet, just stuff from big boxes like Home Depot. But it like this would be a killer way to get people in the doors, and shoppers wouldn’t have to run all over town looking for specific things. So…I guess I’m thinking some of the local shops should look into this!

I wrote about ParkAtMyHouse.com nearly a year ago, musing about parking subletting helping to ease the parking struggles around here. Turns out they’ve launched their services in the US, so you can give it a go! I believe the one listed facility in Tacoma might be the Elf Storage building, but it will be interesting to see if more things develop over time.More here.

Also last year, I mentioned fledgling efforts to save Faith Dairy. Lots of buzz surrounding that lately as a group has come together to try to make the resuscitation a reality. Check out Save Faith Dairy to show your support and/or get involved, and also check out some additional thoughts from Monty Mahan at the Pierce Conservation District, where I’m apparently one of the “favorites”. (In the meantime, if you’re Jonesin’ for some glass-bottled milk, hit Stadium Thriftway for milk from Golden Glen Creamery in Bow, WA!)


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  1. Thanks for the mention! Also check out Farm Fresh Delivery – they used to deliver for Wilcox, but are now delivering non-homogenized milk from Golden Glen Creamery as well. They’ve been very supportive of the effort to re-open Faith Dairy and have committed to carrying the new Faith Dairy’s products, should we be successful.

    — Andrew Bacon    Mar 25, 12:09 AM    #