Sep 23, 2021 | Agriculture, Entrepreneurs
Evans Knob Farm is owned and operated by Kathy and Reid Evans, fourth-generation farmers of the Evans’ family farm, who took ownership of the property in 1994. After employment cuts made by IBM in 2002, Reid was let go by the company. It was then that Kathy...
Sep 16, 2021 | Agriculture, Entrepreneurs
Remember that old song Home, Home On The Range? Now, you, and Neil Young, can visit a home where the buffalo roam right here in West Virginia. Liz Riffle, owner of Riffle Farms: American Bison, located in Preston County, began her foray into bison cattle farming...
Sep 9, 2021 | Entrepreneurs, Retail
A&K Clothing is a locally owned business and manufacturer operating out of Enterprise, West Virginia. Amanda Stevens, the one-man band and owner of the company, is a Fairmont State University graduate and a proud native of the Mountain State. Since opening shop...
Sep 2, 2021 | Entrepreneurs, Retail
Amanda McDaniel and her father, John, set out three years ago to restore a lost trade. As a retirement project combined with an entrepreneurial dream, the two of them opened Shenandoah Planing Mill, a full-service lumber mill offering dimensional hardwoods, flooring,...
Aug 26, 2021 | Entrepreneurs, Retail
Jon Napier began collecting vinyl records early in college. After what grew into a profound love for music, the arts and live entertainment, he and his partner opened Nail City Record in the heart of downtown Wheeling, West Virginia. Napier, a Wheeling native,...
Aug 19, 2021 | Entrepreneurs, Food and Drink
Stephen Mann of MannCave Distillery is the most decorated distiller you’ve never heard of. Yet, in his more than three years in the small town of Weston, West Virginia, Mann says, “Some people still don’t know who we are.” A lack of communal...
