Avital’s Apiaries was founded in 2010 and began as a traditional beekeeper’s business: selling honey, candles made from the wax, lip balms and lotion bars. After seeing the popularity among the lotion bars and lip balms (as well as the candles and honey) Avital’s Apiaries expanded and began selling honey-infused soaps, beeswax balms, lotions and […]
(ITHACA) Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes has a history of providing accessible quality health care, honest education, and fearless advocacy to communities of Tompkins, Chemung, Steuben and Schuyler counties since 1968. The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is pleased to announce that this important community institution has earned certification as a Living Wage Employer. […]
(Ithaca) The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is pleased to announce that it has now recognized 107 area businesses and organizations as Certified Living Wage Employers, with the addition of an historic non-profit and an anchor union in the Ithaca community, and the nine workers at these organizations. The History Center in Tompkins County traces its […]
(Ithaca) The Tompkins County Workers’ Center is pleased to announce that we have now certified 104 employers as being Living Wage Employers, having just recently added the Town of Enfield on the western border of Tompkins County. The Town of Enfield employs a total of 22 workers. This brings the total of workers, countywide, who […]
Evangeline Sarat brings a powerful passion to operating her CSA, Sweet Land Farm in Trumansburg, NY. Being a Living Wage Employer is all part of her commitment to a truly healthy, sustainable community. “I had no choice but to be a Living Wage Employer. I have a passion for farming, a vision of what life […]