Ashleigh Lovelace

Worker-owned cooperatives in the Hudson Valley are working to create a more equitable workplace for their employees and provide a path to share in the benefits and burdens of ownership.

In Pine Hill, an Ulster County hamlet with a population of just under 300 five minutes from Belleayre Mountain, a group of 20 residents have banded together to save a blighted historic building.

For Brenna Chase, founder of Willow Deep Studio, the journey to full-time artisan has been defined by a spirit of openness and constant iteration.

Rebecca and Jon Falcon’s approach to refreshing the Slutsky Lumber brand offers a look into what it takes to get bold with small business marketing and take meaningful risks that reap strong rewards.

After years of working in restaurants, Ryan Viator and Sean Weeks founded Buns Burgers with a goal to ensure their employees’ needs were centered in the structure of the business.

As the oldest shoe store in the US continuously run by the same family, Montano’s in Saugerties is a Hudson Valley example of what it takes to cultivate a family succession plan that sticks.

It’s safe to say that the Hudson Valley is in a golden age of locally made skincare brands. Much like the rapid growth of the farm-to-table movement that came before it, there has been a seismic shift in the apothecary goods landscape.

First Bloom is a new market opened last month by cookbook author Alison Roman in the Delaware County hamlet of Bloomville.

After the pandemic shuttered Sweet Sue’s for two years, the longtime Phoenicia favorite is finally back under new management. But don’t worry, the new owners bought Sue’s famous pancake recipes, which return to the griddle for the first time today, complement the expanded menu of diner-adjacent breakfast fare and a house smoked meats program.

Coxsackie-based Sfoglini pasta, founded in 2012 by Scott Ketchum and Steve Gonzalez, makes its artisanal dried pasta using traditional bronze dies.